Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

Abandoned waterpark turned counter-culture mecca.

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

Giant granite sculptures representing family on the northern coast of Spain.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

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

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

A science fiction-inspired apartment building designed by a famous Spanish architect.

A charming Spanish village sits atop this natural limestone overpass.

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

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

Cursed swimming pool left abandoned is now a favorite of filmmakers and ghost hunters.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.