Places Paiva Wants to Go

This chapel is the site of a yearly pilgrimage that originated during the Middle Ages.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

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

As the highest point in the Mid-Atlantic range this stratovolcano offers spectacular views.

Rainwater transformed this old quarry into a peaceful pond you won't find in most tourist books.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

The extravagance of Portugal’s "Pink Palace" resulted in a noble title being awarded to its owner.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

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

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.