Places mcurtis Wants to Go

Once a spa resort, then a tuberculosis sanatorium, and now a crumbling ruin.

Legends surround this natural rock formation that looks like a Moorish king wearing a crown.

Once used to calculate the various levels around the country.

Down this yellow brick road, visitors are treated to toadstool houses and massive mushroom sculptures.

Hidden underground, a remarkable 10th-century bath complex survives virtually unaltered.

The second largest palm grove in Europe was planted during Moorish times and has been largely unchanged since then.

The world's first electric battery-powered submarine.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

The two massive guns that defended Cartagena Bay.

This small Spanish village still pays homage to the Spaghetti Western films that were shot there in the 1960s.

This abandoned gold mine found a second life as a post-apocalyptic film set.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

Holding the current title of "biggest chair in the world," it stands with little fanfare in Lucena, Spain.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

This magnificent brick dome was made with an unusual design method.

Marvel at this immense work of art that greets arrivals to the city.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

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

Before this rocky hill was home to a chapel, it was used as a lookout by Romans and Moors.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

On a trail in Portugal's Barão de São João National Forest, a pile of faces look up at hikers from the forest floor.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.