Spain
Every logged mystery in this country.
- Community of Madrid
Catedral de Justo
Justo Gallego Martínez laid the first stone on October 12, 1961, and worked on the building for 60 years with no drawings, no training as an architect or a builder, and no permit. He died on November 28, 2021, at 96. The building has still never been licensed or consecrated.
- Navarre
Cuevas de Zugarramurdi
On November 7, 1610, the Inquisition tribunal at Logroño burned six people alive and five more in effigy, most of them from this village. The inquisitor sent to check the case afterward handled 1,802 statements and reported back that he had found neither witches nor anyone bewitched.
- Aragón (Huesca)
Estación Internacional de Canfranc
A driver taking a break in a disused customs building at Canfranc found a stack of weathered papers, one of them stamped for a consignment of gold bars. The documents showed that around 86 tonnes of Nazi gold had crossed this platform between 1942 and 1943, on a route that appears in no other accounting of where the plundered gold went.
- Aragón (Zaragoza)
Pueblo Viejo de Belchite
The fighting here ran from August 24 to September 7, 1937, and when it stopped Franco ordered the ruins left standing rather than cleared. A new town was built alongside and finished in 1954. People went on living in the wreckage of the old one until 1964.
- Galicia (A Coruña)
San Andrés de Teixido
The saying is that whoever does not come here alive will come after death, as a lizard, a toad, or an insect, which is why pilgrims on the cliff path watch where they put their feet and move nothing off the track. The pilgrimage is documented from 1391.