Salvador Dali's chambers (8 photos)

Together with Gala, his muse and lifelong companion, he expanded the house over the course of forty years, absorbing neighboring buildings, tearing down walls, warping floors, and weaving his visions into the architecture: doors leading nowhere, ceilings that seemed to have melted, windows like eyes looking out to sea. It was within these walls, enveloped in the salty sea air and silence, that "The Persistence of Memory" was born—and many other masterpieces, where reality melted away like hours in the sun. After Gala's death in 1982, Dalí left the house forever—as if he had left his own life. And when he too left, the house, abandoned like a dream, became a temple: today it is a museum, where every crack in the wall is another frame from his sleepless imagination.