Places alexisbeardg Wants to Go

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

This imposing modern citadel started out as a home renovation project.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

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

This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.

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

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

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

Stunning Roman aqueduct used for 1900 years and still standing.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.

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

Village situated on a narrow volcanic escarpment.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

Cliffside houses provide a spectacular view from their perch above the valley.

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

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

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

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.