Places alxndr Wants to Go

Sometimes called the Banksy of Madrid, Muelle was a pioneer of street art in the Spanish city.

Artist Natividad Sánchez wrote a new ending for one of Roman mythology's tragic love stories.

This girder was hit by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War, but nobody knew about it until 2016.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

Madrid's last horchata kiosk is a blue-and-white beacon of refreshment.

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

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

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

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

This portrait of Philip V is always hung upside down, in a protest three centuries in the making.

A long strip of fossil-filled limestone makes up this natural bridge above a rushing stream.

Super Robot anime statue guards a forgotten suburban development in Tarragona.

Now a pile of ruins and rubble, this was a lovely mountain town as recently as 1960.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

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

This multi-level, aqueduct-footbridge hybrid is one of the greatest works of the Spanish Renaissance.

A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.

The geomorphology of the Turia Valley could easily be mistaken for Utah or Arizona.

This sculpture of a rider on horseback once crowned the tomb of an Iberian aristocrat.

Built in 1925, this glass-roofed shopping arcade is known for its modernist Italian architecture.