Combining a few popular tourist cities into one European itinerary is pretty common, especially for Americans and other visitors traveling from farther away. But hauling a suitcase through train stations is nobody’s idea of a vacation, so plenty of travelers just hire a driver instead, and the drive can be half the fun.

According to Daytrip, a booking platform for city-to-city transfers, Portugal claimed four of the 10 most-booked sightseeing stops in Europe, and all four sit on the road between Lisbon and Porto.

Here’s where to pull over.

Plenty of haunted attractions are mostly a gift shop with a ghost story attached.

These places are different: they’ve been studied, researched, and investigated for years, and still don’t have a clean explanation.

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Most people tear through Scotland like it’s a checklist: castle, Highlands photo stop, Loch Ness, done.

This guide makes the case for slowing down and seeing Alba (that’s Scotland in Gaelic) through the people and places you’d normally drive right past.

In Spain, locals pick their pour by a simple rule: what grows together, goes together, whether that’s Galician Albariño with fresh shellfish or a salty Jerez Manzanilla with fried squid.

Take a tour through seven regional wines and the landscapes behind them, from the volcanic-ash vineyards of Lanzarote to the hand-carved river terraces of Ribeira Sacra.

Costa Rica’s Golfo Dulce is one of only four tropical fjord-like gulfs on the planet, where bottlenose dolphins surface right by the boat and humpback whales show up from both hemispheres.

Pair it with the dry forest of Guanacaste, and you’ve got a two-stop trip from a boutique lodge on the “Sweet Gulf” to a mangrove-wrapped beach resort where resident iguanas invite themselves to lunch.

The Matador Editorial Team

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