Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

The unique design of this former quarry provides ideal acoustics for concerts.

The 19th-century home of Count and Countess von Hallwyl is now a museum.

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.

A geological wonder that helped fuel myths of trolls and giants.

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

Walking through this narrow gorge will make you feel like you've fallen into a fairytale landscape.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

This architectural oddity is an oasis of green on the outskirts of Valencia.

This beautiful spit of land was once the summer playground of the king of Spain.

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

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.

This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."

This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.

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

This small and often-overlooked museum holds some of Spain's finest artistic treasures.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

A science fiction-inspired apartment building designed by a famous Spanish architect.

The little church's beautifully frescoed ceiling has earned it the nickname “the Sistine Chapel of Madrid.”

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