Places Cactam Wants to Go

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Every Easter, a small Sicilian town builds a stunning cathedral out of bread.

Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.

Springtime is go time for this repurposed shack and the fish it venerates.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.