Places ClairdeLune Wants to Go

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.