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This sculpture in Valencia features 22,000 tiny, obsidian blue figures that pay homage to the Lady of Elche.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

These ruins are all that remain of Tortosa’s lost coal gas manufacturing industry.

A botanical garden full of thought-provoking contemporary sculptures.

This memorial, built by fascist dictator General Franco in 1960, has been repurposed by the people of Catalonia.

These magnificently sculpted tombs represent Spain's own legendary version of "Romeo and Juliet."

This grandiose staircase was part of the revival of a medieval Spanish architectural style combining Christian and Islamic influences.

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

A medieval shrine set into a towering canyon wall.

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

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

The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.

The ruins of an ancient Celtiberian town with incredible rock-cut buildings and a Roman aqueduct.

The Spanish writer devoted hours to writing 'Don Quixote' in this house.

Designed in the Romanesque style, this structure was once a fortress monastery.

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

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

An ancient stone structure that, according to legend, was built by witches.

A stone structure built thousands of years ago on the Iberian peninsula.

Feast on cuttlefish ink-stained paella by the beach.

This abandoned racetrack looks like it is set to hold competitions in the apocalypse.

The geographic midpoint of the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.

This human-shaped statue is actually a geodesic station.

A pair of iconic characters from the local newspaper argue over pet snails.