Luarca

Giant Squid Museum in Luarca, Spain

Forget the kraken of sailors’ nightmares. The monster really does exist—and in the Asturian fishing town of Luarca, you can come face-to-face with one. Far from being a ship-swallowing beast, the giant squid is a mysterious inhabitant of the ocean depths whose strange anatomy has inspired legends for centuries. Known scientifically as Architeuthis , the giant squid can reach around 20 meters in…