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Alcorcón puppet center and school are a must if puppetry is what you care about

The most emblematic piece by a Peruvian master of pop art ended up placed in a modest square in Alcorcón.

A historic castle that served as a backdrop to part of an elaborate extraterrestrial hoax.

An open-air sculpture museum in a park in Alcorcón.

Albacete honors the craft that has made the city famous throughout Spain: cutlery

This sculpture of a rider on horseback once crowned the tomb of an Iberian aristocrat.

Housed in a stunning Victorian building, this museum has the largest exhibition of knives, blades, penknives, and scissors in Spain.

Built in 1925, this glass-roofed shopping arcade is known for its modernist Italian architecture.

Seeing her husband shot, she took up his banner and rallied the troops to attack repulsing the enemy with the cry, "Those with honor, follow me!"

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

This panoramic lift provides a futuristic ride up San Pedro Mountain.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

This fantastical faceless sculpture in Spain is on the grandest scale.

The Museum of the Forum of Caesar Augusta showcases the city's ancient Roman sewage system.

The first museum in Europe dedicated to the art of origami.

This 11th-century fortress is now the seat of Aragon’s state legislature.

A statue of a boy looks up at where the famous rival to the Leaning Tower of Pisa once stood.

The world's largest sundial can cast a shadow more than 1,600 feet long.

Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.

A bad omen turned symbol of good fortune now adorns a hidden palace in the quiet streets of Valencia's old town.

This sculpture in Valencia features 22,000 tiny, obsidian blue figures that pay homage to the Lady of Elche.

This abandoned viewing platform has become a monument to unnecessary government spending.

This architectural oddity is an oasis of green on the outskirts of Valencia.

Walk into an underground archeological dig, the site of the Roman Forum that was once the center of Valencia.