Places blowendtheory Wants to Go

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

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

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

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

Home to over 1,000 street signs, this museum offers visitors an opportunity to travel over 70 years back in time.

One man's labor of love, Amman's oldest home has become a time capsule with its doors permanently open to artists and guests.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.