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This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts

An open-air "garden" of mural art that changes weekly.

Read a book with a glass of wine at this classically restored bar.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

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.

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

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

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

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

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

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

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

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

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

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.