Places slecnave Wants to Go

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

This Gallo-Roman sanctuary is dedicated to Serápis, god of the underworld.

The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.

Bits of flat terrain surrounded by cliffs make one of the most beautiful landscapes in the Azores.

The ancient sauropod tracks found in this former quarry are some of the largest in the world.

This impressive rupestrian engraving dates back to the Upper Palaeolithic period.

An 11th-century medieval castle cascades over the town of Numão.

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

These small, triangular, colorful houses are a staple of Madeira Island.

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

This castle has links to Portugal’s founding and struggles for independence.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

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

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

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

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

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.

This now abandoned restaurant provides some of the most amazing views of Lisboa.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.