A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

The scorched Lisbon church that survived two earthquakes and a massive fire.

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

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

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

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

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

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.