Places joanicinapoli Wants to Go

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

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

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

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

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

Remote ruins of a 2,400-year-old Iberian settlement.

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

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.