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

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

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

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

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

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

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

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

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.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

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

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

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