Places boixestel Wants to Go

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

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

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.