Places niamhmurphy1993 Wants to Go

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

These giant yellow bowling pins seem to be defying gravity.

This diner from 1930s America now resides in a small town in the Netherlands.

This may be the world's only drive-through windmill.

Rejoice at Amsterdam's ‘pop temple,’ a former church reborn as a raucous music venue.

The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

The former epicenter of the Ecuadorian textile industry, turned museum.

This small uninhabited island offers Galapagos-like biodiversity.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.

A historical puzzle lies at the origins of this structure.