Places vjill20 Wants to Go

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

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

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.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

Europe's largest collection of matchbox designs is a fascinating exploration of the cultural history of the world.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

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

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

This massive monument towers over the city as a constant reminder of the lives lost during Algeria's hard-won war for independence.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.