Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

You can soak in three relaxing pools filled daily by the tide.

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.

Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

Blue-green pools and smooth stones comprise one of Spain’s most idyllic hidden wonders.

A subterranean relic of the Spanish Civil War hides below this picturesque park.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

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

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

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

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

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

The world's largest wooden structure.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

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

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

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

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

Once built to inspire young Soviet minds through astronomy, this dome now stands as a quiet relic of a vanished era.