Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

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

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.

A charming Spanish village sits atop this natural limestone overpass.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

The world's largest wooden structure.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.