Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

This fountain was designed to honor the man who helped bring water to Barcelona.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

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

This generously endowed statue once stood guard outside a Roman home.

This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

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

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

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

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

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

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

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

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.

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

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

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

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.