California is filled with landscapes that feel almost mystical. These logic-defying environments stir the imagination and emit a vibe that can be felt nowhere else. One of these unlikely locales is ...

For now, Idyll exists for me as a few notes in my diary - things I read, bottles I opened. It's kind of similar to the way a distant holiday might live on in the form of pictures on my phone's camera ...

On the morning of December 25, 1870, the villa of Richard and Cosima Wagner in Tribschen, near Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, was filled with the sound of softly played strings and woodwinds. The music, ...