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.

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

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.

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

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

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

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.