Places Luis Morato Wants to Go

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

A pre-Hispanic pyramid in the middle of a tourist district in the Canary Islands.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

This remarkable museum sprung from one of the most important prehistoric archaeological sites in the world.

A charming Spanish village sits atop this natural limestone overpass.

Fragments of the former temple's lost facade are now displayed in a strange library of stones.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

This architectural oddity is an oasis of green on the outskirts of Valencia.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.