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

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

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

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

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

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

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

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

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

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

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

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

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