Places Luis Morato Wants to Go

The ruins of an ancient Celtiberian town with incredible rock-cut buildings and a Roman aqueduct.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

1,300 chamber pots and their eccentric collector.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

These Bullet-scarred bunkers are haunting reminders of the Spanish Civil War.

The mysterious remains of a martyred teenage saint are venerated inside a small country chapel.

The building hides in plain sight in Ribadavia's historic Jewish quarter.

This castle has links to Portugal’s founding and struggles for independence.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

In Spain, the ruins of a Roman military camp sit along a flooded section of a river.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Two large eyes painted anonymously on a mountain overlooking the city pay homage to an old legend.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

A replica of the ice houses that once formed the basis of a local ice cream industry sits proudly in the middle of traffic.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

A museum of tiny buildings in the tiny country of Andorra.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

An abandoned socialist utopia built in the late 19th century.

A fortified medieval basilica on the Caelian Hill preserves extraordinary frescoes and one of Rome's most beautiful hidden cloisters.

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

This art installation at an abandoned lipstick factory has distinct anti-capitalist vibes.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

See replicas of Europe's most famous cave paintings and even some of the animals that feature in the art.