Places Lillive Wants to Go

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This fountain was designed to honor the man who helped bring water to Barcelona.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

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

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

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

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

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

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

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

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

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.