As a Midwesterner accustomed to functional but far-from-glamorous Amtrak hubs, I didn't know I could be wowed by a train station ... this rail station is one of Porto's most popular attractions ...

Built on the former site of a Benedictine monastery, the São Bento Railway Station ... between Porto and many of its northern suburbs. But you likely won't be visiting here to hop a train anywhere.

The train the travels through Nimes in France, Madrid in Spain, Porto and Pocinho in Portugal ... world's first mountain railway and it's still as beautiful as ever. A feat of 19th-century ...