Places samfsm Wants to Go

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

Just like in Hollywood, Madrid has also a forgotten walk of fame.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

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

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.

This lucky bronze frog was gifted to Madrid by a casino.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

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

The little church's beautifully frescoed ceiling has earned it the nickname “the Sistine Chapel of Madrid.”

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

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

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

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

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

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