After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

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

An uninhabited village that preserves and documents rural architecture and an endangered way of life.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

More than 70 detailed dioramas—including some rather nontraditional ones—fill this charming museum.

Strange masks and obscure costumes are housed in this old Madrid corrala.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

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

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.

A unique exhibit lets blind people experience famous works of art and architecture with their hands.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

A breathtaking and biodiverse wilderness in the mountain setting of Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

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

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

Blue-green pools and smooth stones comprise one of Spain’s most idyllic hidden wonders.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.