A Encantada is the small Petrópolis house built for Alberto Santos Dumont, the Brazilian aviation pioneer. Its nickname, the Enchanted, fits the oddity of the place: a compact hillside residence full of clever details, from unusual stairs to practical inventions, now preserved as a biographical museum.
The visit is short but memorable, especially if you are already following Petrópolis's imperial and 19th-century architecture trail. It adds a very different story to the city: not court life or cathedral grandeur, but the private habits and design imagination of a figure central to Brazil's aviation history.