Places slecnave Wants to Go

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

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

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

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

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

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

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

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

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

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

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

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

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

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.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

Underneath this Byzantinian church lies a necropolis filled with ancient tombs and the ruins of previous churches.

These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.