Places aemem Wants to Go

This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

A subterranean relic of the Spanish Civil War hides below this picturesque park.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

This small and often-overlooked museum holds some of Spain's finest artistic treasures.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

A charming Spanish village sits atop this natural limestone overpass.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.

Stunning Roman aqueduct used for 1900 years and still standing.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

The little church's beautifully frescoed ceiling has earned it the nickname “the Sistine Chapel of Madrid.”

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.