Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

An abandoned Indian-inspired mansion.

This imposing modern citadel started out as a home renovation project.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.

12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

Just like in Hollywood, Madrid has also a forgotten walk of fame.

A subterranean relic of the Spanish Civil War hides below this picturesque park.

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

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

The lengthy skeleton of one of the tallest Spaniards of all time is on display in Madrid.

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

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.

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

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

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.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...