Places hapichapi Wants to Go

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

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

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

A science fiction-inspired apartment building designed by a famous Spanish architect.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.

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.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

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

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.