Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

A breathtaking and biodiverse wilderness in the mountain setting of Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

This local emblem is the oldest and largest dragon tree in the Canary Islands.

Possibly the oldest masonry dam in all of Europe.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

Two large eyes painted anonymously on a mountain overlooking the city pay homage to an old legend.

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.

Stormy conditions send jets of seawater bursting through holes in the cliffs.

An enchanting landscape of ancient sandstone structures eroded into otherworldly shapes.

Abandoned tunnels dug for the once-thriving sea salt industry on the coast of southern Spain.

The ruins of a bombed medieval village memorialize the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.

This huge abandoned fortress hidden inside a mountain holds a world of subterranean secrets.

Hidden well off the beaten path in Catalonia is this crumbling medieval castle that is slowly being covered in graffiti.

The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.

This abandoned naval battery stood at the ready as recently as the 1980s.

Religious dwelling in a Spanish volcano.

Abandoned 18th century weapons factory in the Aezkoa Valley.

Haunted tuberculosis hospital built by the patients.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

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

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.