Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Collégiale de Saint-Bonnet-Le-Château
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
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Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
Montpellier, France
This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.
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Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.
Zugarramurdi, Spain
This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.
Zugarramurdi, Spain
A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.
Albi, France
A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.
Belchite, Spain
A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”
Jaca, Spain
This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.
Canfranc, Spain
Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.
L'Alt Empordà, Spain
At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.
Tarragona, Spain
Stunning Roman aqueduct used for 1900 years and still standing.
Cabra del Camp, Spain
Super Robot anime statue guards a forgotten suburban development in Tarragona.
Sitges, Spain
Abandoned waterpark turned counter-culture mecca.
Òrrius, Spain
A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.
Martorell, Spain
A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.
Les Fonts, Spain
This imposing modern citadel started out as a home renovation project.
Sant Just Desvern, Spain
An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.
Barcelona, Spain
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.
Barcelona, Spain
A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.
Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.
Barcelona, Spain
The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.