Ardales, Spain
El Caminito del Rey (The King's Little Pathway)
Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.
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Ardales, Spain
Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.
Lisbon, Portugal
Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.
Lisbon, Portugal
This museum contains a vast array of puppets and marionettes from all over the world, featuring incredible works by Portuguese creators.
Lisbon, Portugal
In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.
Alcantarilha, Portugal
This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.
Lisbon, Portugal
An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.
São Miguel, Portugal
When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Lisbon, Portugal
The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.
Lisbon, Portugal
Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.
Lisbon, Portugal
A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.
Lisbon, Portugal
The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Brussels, Belgium
A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.
Bruges, Belgium
Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Brussels, Belgium
Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.
Brussels, Belgium
From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.
Brussels, Belgium
This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."
Oegstgeest, Netherlands
The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.
Leiden, Netherlands
A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.
Leiden, Netherlands
A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.