Places GRH Wants to Go

Visitors to the National Museum of Nepal can moon over a set of well-traveled flags.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A nature and outdoor art preserve features the large-scale, abstract works of a renowned Maine folk artist.

Previously a hot spring, this park remains a site of unique history, wildlife, and geology.

This monument built by Japanese American immigrants spent decades underground.

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

The grounds and buildings of an old wood pulp mill have been transformed into an innovative art park and museum.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.