Places raquel9e Wants to Go

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

Medieval village and microminiature museum.

Village situated on a narrow volcanic escarpment.

This small and often-overlooked museum holds some of Spain's finest artistic treasures.

This small museum tucked within a subway station holds pieces from Madrid's past.

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

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

A towering monument in Spain has proven to be more labor-intensive than initially planned.

A rare set of strings by famed instrument maker Antonio Stradivarius is on display in the Royal Palace.

A unique exhibit lets blind people experience famous works of art and architecture with their hands.

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

Part of the medieval watchtower is displayed in an otherwise ordinary parking garage.

The lengthy skeleton of one of the tallest Spaniards of all time is on display in Madrid.

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.