Places The Thing That Shouldnt Be Wants to Go

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

These 2000 year old remains of a Roman aqueduct are hidden inside a hotel lobby.

It’s Christmas every day at Barcelona’s oldest restaurant.

Sink your spoon into a luscious crema Catalana at this former urban dairy farm.

Behind this unmarked facade lies the original bomba—a crunchy orb of fried mashed potatoes stuffed with minced meat.

This generously endowed statue once stood guard outside a Roman home.

Dunk your churros in rich hot chocolate on the city’s old “Chocolate Street.”

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

This park transforms Montreal's industrial past into a sustainable future, with glowing spheres that capture energy from beneath your feet.

A 20-foot statue reminds viewers of an extinct species.

A fragment of one of history’s most famous walls stands as a reminder of unity in a culturally divided city.

A striking steel sculpture that was moved to an out-of-the-way location.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

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

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

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.