Places rivkaarose Wants to Go

It's believed these prehistoric individuals were the victims of cannibalism.

Disturbing winged beings decorate the walls of this strange abandoned hermitage.

This Gothic church houses ornate royal tombs and a magnificent gilded altarpiece.

Indigenous cultures believed all life would end if this enormous rock toppled.

The discovery of these rare, ancient artifacts led to the creation of a new museum.

Originally planted by the ancient Carthaginians, this sprawling palm grove is one of the largest in the world.

Tools, pottery, and mummies showcase the history of La Palma's native people.

To fit bodies into this Renaissance crypt, they were first left to decompose in the crypt's rotting room.

This multi-level, aqueduct-footbridge hybrid is one of the greatest works of the Spanish Renaissance.

A somewhat mysterious biomedical museum housed inside a Spanish university.

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

The building hides in plain sight in Ribadavia's historic Jewish quarter.

The mysterious remains of a martyred teenage saint are venerated inside a small country chapel.

This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.

Head to the mountains to catch a glimpse of Spain's endangered subspecies of brown bear.

The grotto where Saint Ignatius of Loyola lived as a hermit for nearly a year.

A signal indicates the entrance to this alley, rumored to be a meeting place for witches.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

A charming Spanish village sits atop this natural limestone overpass.

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

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

Known as the Casa de las Siete Chimeneas, this haunted 16th-century manor has a dark, mysterious past.

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.