This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

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

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

On the wall of this medieval square, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

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

This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

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

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

Read a book with a glass of wine at this classically restored bar.

An open-air "garden" of mural art that changes weekly.

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

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

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

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

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

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

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

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

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

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.

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

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

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.