Places shawtish Wants to Go

This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.

A spectacular walk on the flank of a gorge.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

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

Geological storytelling.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

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

You can soak in three relaxing pools filled daily by the tide.

Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.

A magnificent place to see authentic paleolithic cave paintings that are an astounding 33,000 years old.

This enchanting hamlet carved into the rock looks like something straight out of Tolkien's Rivendell.

This remarkable prehistoric town is full of watchtowers and houses that have withstood thousands of years.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

An out-of-place grove of sequoias thrives in northern Spain.

Vibrant street art created with mixed media.

This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."

Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.

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

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.