Places Madeleine Wants to Go

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.