Places miamd Wants to Go

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

How did an Australian statue of the Bard of Avon end up in the Hungarian capital?

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.