Melilla, Spain
Melilla
A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
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Melilla, Spain
A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
Puerto de Mazarrón, Spain
An enchanting landscape of ancient sandstone structures eroded into otherworldly shapes.
Santander, Spain
This beautiful spit of land was once the summer playground of the king of Spain.
Gormaz, Spain
This Arab fortress was once the largest citadel in Western Europe.
Fanzara, Spain
The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.
Salamanca, Spain
An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.
La Palma, Spain
This underwater graveyard commemorates a group of murdered 16th-century missionaries.
Terrassa, Spain
This chest hospital with a dark, haunted past serves as a fitting set for horror films and a paradise for ghost hunters.
Utrera, Spain
The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
This underground church is topped with a 500-foot cross that is seen by many as a beacon of fascist hubris.
Seville, Spain
Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.
Peraleda de la Mata, Spain
This 7,000-year-old megalithic wonder covered by a Franco-era reservoir emerges in times of drought.
Castellón, Spain
A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.
Vistabella, Spain
A modernist church in an ancient village.
Cuenca, Spain
Geological storytelling.
Manises, Spain
Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.
Guía, Spain
Hundreds of caves once used to store grains and animal feed.
Aranda de Duero, Spain
A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.
Asturias, Spain
An abandoned Indian-inspired mansion.
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.
Oviedo, Spain
The atmospheric ruins of a historic church can be found on a hill above the city of Oviedo.
Manzanares el Real, Spain
A magnificent, long-abandoned castle built in the wake of the reconquest of Spain.
Cartagena, Spain
An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.
Alicante, Spain
A well-restored ancient archaeology site gives a real feel for life during the Roman age.