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This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

This generously endowed statue once stood guard outside a Roman home.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.