Places The Sitch Wants to Go

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

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

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

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

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

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

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

William Smith's iconic "map that changed the world" is hidden behind a curtain in the Geological Society building.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

This historic streetcar system has been running since the 19th-century.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.