Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Visit the only cheesemaker working in Barcelona.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

This medieval village clings to a cliff in southwestern France.

A unique public space where the walkway is paved with thousands of porcelain tiles.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

A limestone cave filled with impressive formations in Mole Creek Karst National Park.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

One of the oldest remaining Catholic churches in England is home to the hand of a 7th-century saint.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.

Population: three people, two dogs, and one old grouch.

The residence of a Taiwanese literary scholar sits down an alleyway adorned with depictions of snails.

The oldest working camera obscura in the world sits on the top floor of an old windmill tower.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.