Places Celine Wants to Go

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

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

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

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

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.