Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Núcleo Museológico do Sal
This museum documents the ancient practice of salt production in Figueira da Foz.
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Figueira da Foz, Portugal
This museum documents the ancient practice of salt production in Figueira da Foz.
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
The history of drinking is told through 1,800 cups, chalices, and glasses at this exhibit.
Câmara de Lobos, Portugal
This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.
São Miguel, Portugal
A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.
Arouca, Portugal
One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.
Alcantarilha, Portugal
This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.
Mafra, Portugal
At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.
Santa Luzia, Portugal
Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.
Lisbon, Portugal
One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.
Lisbon, Portugal
This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Lisbon, Portugal
The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Nottingham, England
An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.
London, England
More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.
Dublin, Ireland
The oldest public library in Ireland.
Stockholm, Sweden
The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.
Manchester, England
Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.
London, England
A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.
Paris, France
This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Budapest, Hungary
A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.