Places claireromama Wants to Go

This Gothic revival structure has been a family home, a military base, a gymnastics center, and is now owned by one of the largest auction houses in Italy.

This charming stone church on the shore of Lake Tekapo is an icon in astrophotography.

This uniquely shaped slab of volcanic rock has been used by generations of Antarctic explorers.

This enormous aluminum figure in Denmark lying in a plunged position, echoes the global debate on canceled historical statues.

The largest museum dedicated to Italian Americans on the East Coast is located in a 100-year-old church.

One of Indiana's only natural sandstone arches is nestled between resort ruins and an old Boy Scouts camp.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.