Places jddarcy Wants to Go

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

This tiny train shuttles passengers to one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular sights.

A trail of "Game of Thrones"-themed doors carved from fallen trees from the iconic Dark Hedges.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.