Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

The costumes depict the Kurent, the star character of the annual Kurentovanje festival.

A beautiful drive through the foot of the Alps traces the path of 15th-century Turkish raids.

A cemetery for Slovenian notables also serves as a popular recreation space.

The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

This region of Slovakia boasts some of the most plentiful opal mines in the world.

A gorgeous stone viaduct crosses over a bucolic valley.

An abandoned 19th-century iron factory perched along the outskirts of an idyllic village.

A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.