Places ClairdeLune Wants to Go

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

A large instrument played by the wind.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

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