Places Ms18 Wants to Go

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

This historic cemetery is home to the largest private mausoleum in Europe.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

More than 500 unique and specially designed cases collected by D.C.'s "Harmonica Case Man."

An unassuming music museum recounts the rags to riches story of a dramatic Portuguese genre.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

The devil-defying mark left by a saint as a boy is visible inside Lisbon's cathedral.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

After the owner of this Art Nouveau home died, it was turned into a museum displaying a lifetime dedicated to art.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

The scorched Lisbon church that survived two earthquakes and a massive fire.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

The longest step street in the city.

Built in the 1920s, this co-op in the Bronx feels more like an Italian villa than a typical New York apartment building.