Places jamesarvidson Wants to Go

This small museum tucked within a subway station holds pieces from Madrid's past.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

An open-air "garden" of mural art that changes weekly.

"Alleys of Stone" form natural mazes in Spanish natural park.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Just like in Hollywood, Madrid has also a forgotten walk of fame.

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

A subterranean relic of the Spanish Civil War hides below this picturesque park.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

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

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

Blue-green pools and smooth stones comprise one of Spain’s most idyllic hidden wonders.

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

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.