Places elisecarraway Wants to Go

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

Poet Antonio Machado's former residence offers the quintessential Castilian lifestyle of the provincial towns in the early 20th century.

The first mechanized factory in Spain is also one of the most significant mints in the history of money.

These "mermaids" that surround a plaza in Segovia are rather sphinx-like.

A curious memento mori hangs in the magnificent Cathedral of Segovia.

A controversial art piece that harkens back to local folklore.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

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

According to tradition, King Phillip II supervised construction of the seat of his empire from this seat carved into rock.

This underground church is topped with a 500-foot cross that is seen by many as a beacon of fascist hubris.

This 13th century convent is now a medieval painting museum.

A Brutalist monument and "sculpture that contains many sculptures."

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

Sample Spanish wines under frescoes in a historic monastery of "barefoot old men."

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

The surviving remnants of a destroyed medieval church now stand in a public park.

A magnificent, long-abandoned castle built in the wake of the reconquest of Spain.

This odd stone has served as a meeting place for local councils since the 17th century.

This 18th-century project to build the world's tallest gravity dam was never completed.

These Bullet-scarred bunkers are haunting reminders of the Spanish Civil War.

A place steeped in history that may be best known as the set of a 1960 film.

The blowhole bursts spectacularly right next to the buildings in a medieval seaside town.