Places jfilipemop Wants to Go

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A gift from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his wife.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

The former home of a Portuguese poet, artist, and collector is packed to the brim with art.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.