Places WanderlustDiaries Wants to Go

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

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

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

An unassuming music museum recounts the rags to riches story of a dramatic Portuguese genre.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

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

This museum contains a vast array of puppets and marionettes from all over the world, featuring incredible works by Portuguese creators.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

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

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

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.

This museum is home to one of the biggest collections of printing press technology—plus a river view.

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

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

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.