Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

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

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

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

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

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

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

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

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

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

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

One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.

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

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

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

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.