Places Jason C Wants to Go

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

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

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

The oldest building in Madrid.

One of the best examples of the modernist movement in Madrid.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

This Art Nouveau gate still stands at the former entrance of a 20th-century Spanish writer's colony.

A towering monument in Spain has proven to be more labor-intensive than initially planned.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

One of Madrid's oldest trees, with a long and colorful history, resides in El Retiro Park.

This postmodern apartment block was designed to be a vertical neighborhood.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

This small and often-overlooked museum holds some of Spain's finest artistic treasures.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

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

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

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

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

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

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

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