Lisbon, Portugal
Santa Justa Lift
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Lisbon, Portugal
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
Lisbon, Portugal
A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.
Lisbon, Portugal
One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.
Corinne, Utah
Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.
Sintra, Portugal
An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.
Porto, Portugal
This historic streetcar system has been running since the 19th-century.
Porto, Portugal
Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
Lisbon, Portugal
This now abandoned restaurant provides some of the most amazing views of Lisboa.
Colares, Portugal
One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Lisbon, Portugal
The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Porto, Portugal
This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.
Lisbon, Portugal
Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Rome, Italy
The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.
Rome, Italy
This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.