Places Edited by Xavi Pascual

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The gaunt visage of this angular Christ giant is enough to put the fear of God into all who see it.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Two large posteriors in one giant statue.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

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