Places toocanvan Wants to Go

Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.

This giant sculpture recalls a famous passage from “Alice in Wonderland.”

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

The Roman city was the birthplace of various emperors and is home to one of the empire's most impressive architectural feats.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

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

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

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

Ghostly ship drawings grace the walls of this medieval hospital.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

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

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.

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

A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

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

These 400-year-old ruins are all that's left of the monastery where Ines de Castro was assassinated by the King of Portugal.

A Portuguese museum display features a bizarre assortment of objects.

A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

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