Porcelain Room in Aranjuez, Spain

Tucked away in Spain's Royal Palace of Aranjuez is a room that feels less like a royal chamber and more like a theatrical illusion, according to Atlas Obscura. The Porcelain Room, completed in seventeen sixty-five, is sheathed nearly entirely in white porcelain with brightly colored reliefs depicting Chinese figures, exotic birds, monkeys, dragons, and flowers that multiply across mirrored walls. Its most remarkable feature is a porcelain chandelier shaped like a palm tree, where a Chinese figure clings to its trunk and a monkey imitates him. The room stands as a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Rococo craftsmanship—a blend of European taste and imagined visions of Asia, rendered entirely in porcelain.

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