Places Zrubi Wants to Go

An ancient tomb that still stands in Portugal.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

This tower once served as a radar station during the Cold War.

An abandoned anti-smuggling station decays along the boundary between Portugal and Spain.

An abandoned mining complex in Serra do Gerês.

This abandoned fortress still stands guard over the Guadiana River despite a history of warfare.

Some 4,000 individual tiles make up this striking blue billboard from the golden age of air travel.

A naturally occurring amphitheater carved by erosion into the mountainside.

A small sanctuary carved into the mountainside near the tallest point in continental Portugal.

Nicknamed "Karri Knight," this Eucalyptus was planted in 1895 and stands at 72 meters.

These narrow stone granaries have been used to store and dry out grain for hundreds of years.

This enigmatic Roman tower lurks just outside Belmonte.

A glacial valley filled with silver beech trees in the mountains of Portugal.

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

A devasting 2020 fire left this historic seminary in ruins.

Panoramic views from the mountains over a facility built to provide tuberculosis patients with fresh mountain air.

The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.

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

The ancient sauropod tracks found in this former quarry are some of the largest in the world.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

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

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.