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

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

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.

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

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

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

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

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.