Places jamesarvidson Wants to Go

These "mermaids" that surround a plaza in Segovia are rather sphinx-like.

This haunting location was featured in the final scene of a classic spaghetti western.

King Carlos IV laid the first stone during construction of this chapel.

This 18th-century project to build the world's tallest gravity dam was never completed.

Built to power trains, the engines in this building provided the entire city of Madrid with electricity during the Spanish Civil War.

The two massive guns that defended Cartagena Bay.

The remains of this misplaced church were moved here stone by stone.

This 15th century pharmacy displays a beautiful collection of ancient medicine jars.

These abandoned country fairgrounds are filled with replicas of Spanish monuments.

A series of well-preserved ruins show the culture of the ancient Benehoaritas people.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

The 20th-century church looks like a rustic version of the Sagrada Familia.

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

This Gothic church houses ornate royal tombs and a magnificent gilded altarpiece.

This small Spanish village still pays homage to the Spaghetti Western films that were shot there in the 1960s.

Stop by, and you'll receive a map to two well-preserved ancient petroglyph sites.

An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.

A road that winds through this natural cave is the only way to access the small, appropriately-named village of Cuevas.

Possibly the oldest masonry dam in all of Europe.

The defensive tower was built centuries ago to warn locals of Berber pirate attacks.

The grotto where Saint Ignatius of Loyola lived as a hermit for nearly a year.

These wooden balconies that are both decorative and functional.

Walls of stone rise up from sinkholes caused by underwater erosion.

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