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

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

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

Blue-green pools and smooth stones comprise one of Spain’s most idyllic hidden wonders.

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.

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.

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

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

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

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

This funky former tobacco factory is one of the most striking examples of Madrid's cultural diversity.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.