Places GRH Wants to Go

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

This is the real-life “Phantom of the Opera” box from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel.

An international border crossing near the famous Iguazú Falls where bargain hunters and curious tourists stream between Brazil and Paraguay.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

These stairs, seemingly disappearing into a wall, once tempted some students into petty crime

A 16th-century fortress that was a Nazi-era prison and execution site, now a silent memorial.

Intricate, eye-catching, award-winning rubber sculptures liven up this Pennsylvania town.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

Gustave Eiffel's masterpiece until the Eiffel Tower was built.

Location of the “Greatest 45 Minutes in Sports History.”

Inside this 3,500-year-old tomb are remarkable ancient Egyptian paintings of African wildlife.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

This giant sculpture recalls a famous passage from “Alice in Wonderland.”

This Welsh dockyard was the site of the not-so-secret construction of the Millennium Falcon for the original Star Wars trilogy.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.