Places clpartin Wants to Go

Rumors and legends of secret Nazi activities surround this eerily remote island mansion.

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

A hidden medieval crypt where a famous legend says the devil used to teach black magic.

The walls of these four caverns are filled with art that dates back to the earliest human presence in Europe.

These striking ruins of a castle resemble a ship's stern.

A spectacular walk on the flank of a gorge.

Abandoned 18th century weapons factory in the Aezkoa Valley.

The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.

This ancient tunnel is one of the most important examples of Roman hydraulic engineering in Spain.

This abandoned naval battery stood at the ready as recently as the 1980s.

In Spain, the ruins of a Roman military camp sit along a flooded section of a river.

These primitive rock paintings include a very beloved depiction of a woolly mammoth.

This 19th-century fountain's namesake animal isn't what you think it is.

Abandoned tunnels dug for the once-thriving sea salt industry on the coast of southern Spain.

This Arab fortress was once the largest citadel in Western Europe.

An abandoned socialist utopia built in the late 19th century.

Despite its grandiose name, this enigmatic first-century void under the town is no cave, and it's possibly not a palace either.

A neighborhood park in the city of Cáceres hides what some believe are revolutionary examples of Neanderthal cave art.

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.

The ruins of a bombed medieval village memorialize the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.

An outsider folly near Madrid.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

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

"Satisfying" is a good way to describe these beautifully aligned rows of Spanish mills.