Places Cactam Wants to Go

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.

1920's reinforced concrete church by architect Auguste Perret changes the face of modern design.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

The largest underground church in Europe.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

One man's desire to transcend art led to the construction of this outsider chapel.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

Resting on a hill overlooking the coast, these medieval ruins look completely deserted save for their restored chapel.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.