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Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

This Moorish fortress has guarded Málaga from the slopes of Gibralfaro hill for nearly a thousand years.

This art installation at an abandoned lipstick factory has distinct anti-capitalist vibes.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

Two 2,500-year-old Phoenician boats found on the coast of Spain, giving incredible insight into the ancient maritime traders.

An underground spring in a labyrinthine cave system, decorated with stalagmites and stalactites.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

Drink the 'Blood of Christ' in this Roman Catholic fever dream.

The world's largest wooden structure.

This giant sculpture recalls a famous passage from “Alice in Wonderland.”

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

The Roman city was the birthplace of various emperors and is home to one of the empire's most impressive architectural feats.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

This remote location of this Moorish stronghold means it doesn’t attract many tourists—and that it still has the aura of fear and bravery of the 1300s.