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

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

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

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

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

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

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

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

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

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.