Dalí Theatre-Museum, Figueres

Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres in 1904, and there in 1974 he opened his masterwork: a museum built inside the ruined town theatre where his first exhibition had hung, gutted by fire in the Civil War. Crowned with giant eggs and studded with golden bread rolls, it is a total surrealist environment—the Mae West room whose furniture forms a face, a rainy Cadillac, ceilings of soaring feet. Dalí called it 'a gigantic surrealist object' and considered the museum itself his greatest single work. When he died in 1989 he was entombed in a crypt beneath the glass-domed stage, so visitors literally walk above the artist inside his own dream.