Places p0h Wants to Go

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

This lucky bronze frog was gifted to Madrid by a casino.

A statue commemorating a beloved stray dog who was adopted by the entire neighborhood where he lived.

Remains of the lost church hide beneath this Spanish Parliament building.

Emblematic Madrid bar founded in the 1930s that is a testament to times gone by

These distorting, funhouse mirrors achieved fame in a renowned piece of Spanish theater.

Hidden under a center for the elderly are the dungeons which were used during the Spanish Inquisition.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

Feast on cuttlefish ink-stained paella by the beach.

Start your day with a Catalan-style “fork breakfast”—complete with booze—at this rustic restaurant.

Open since 1912, this restaurant is one of the few left that serves chicken with lobster and other Catalan-style surf and turf staples.

Visit the only cheesemaker working in Barcelona.

It’s Christmas every day at Barcelona’s oldest restaurant.

Grab a slice of Catalonia’s famous flatbread in a space with ancient Roman roots.

Sink your spoon into a luscious crema Catalana at this former urban dairy farm.

Behind this unmarked facade lies the original bomba—a crunchy orb of fried mashed potatoes stuffed with minced meat.

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

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.

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

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

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

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.