Places aidanmcleod Wants to Go

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

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

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.

In 2019, an anonymous photo of a windowless room with eerie yellow wallpaper was posted to 4chan from this building, launching 'The Backrooms', one of the internet’s most massive collaborative horror phenomena.

The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Ciudad Real's former town hall found new life in 2005 when the chime clock with automatons was installed.

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

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Remains of the walls of the Roman city named for its founder

Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The world's largest wooden structure.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

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