Places Luis Morato Wants to Go

Remnants of the rich history of fish salting in this ancient Mediterranean port town.

A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.

The gaunt visage of this angular Christ giant is enough to put the fear of God into all who see it.

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.