Places clpartin Wants to Go

This sweet-toothed bear searching for snacks has been a symbol of Madrid for decades.

Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.

Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

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

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.

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

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

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

Abandoned waterpark turned counter-culture mecca.

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

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.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.