Places rigor Wants to Go

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

The world's largest wooden structure.

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

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.

This underground church is topped with a 500-foot cross that is seen by many as a beacon of fascist hubris.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

A magnificent, long-abandoned castle built in the wake of the reconquest of Spain.

This Arab fortress was once the largest citadel in Western Europe.

This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.

Cliffside houses provide a spectacular view from their perch above the valley.

Geological storytelling.

"Alleys of Stone" form natural mazes in Spanish natural park.

A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.

Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

This memorial, built by fascist dictator General Franco in 1960, has been repurposed by the people of Catalonia.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.