Places Cactam Wants to Go

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

The site where two doves fell in love.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.