Places Sarah Jones Wants to Go

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

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

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

A living art gallery painted on a canvas of Monterey pine trees.

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

Now a pile of ruins and rubble, this was a lovely mountain town as recently as 1960.

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

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

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

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

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

The world's largest wooden structure.

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 Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Village situated on a narrow volcanic escarpment.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.