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Religious dwelling in a Spanish volcano.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

An ornate tower shows off a local artist's architectural flair.

This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.

An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

An outsider folly near Madrid.

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

Haunted tuberculosis hospital built by the patients.

A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.

An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

The Gaudí-inspired building that was the start of Terrassenc modernism.

This imposing modern citadel started out as a home renovation project.

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.

This chest hospital with a dark, haunted past serves as a fitting set for horror films and a paradise for ghost hunters.