Places GRH Wants to Go

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Despite being built 50 years ago, this housing estate's unconventional design gives it a futuristic, sci-fi aesthetic.

A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

This museum holds the most comprehensive collection of Armenian art in the world.

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

Santa Monica is one of the world's longest, most beautiful, and least developed beaches: just white sand for miles, a single beach shack, and the concrete shell of an abandoned resort that never got past its foundations.

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

This historic drug store-turned-museum served an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

A man's home is his castle.

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Once part of a chain of over 80 restaurants that merged with another Mexican-American chain, it has been reborn in one of its original locations.

This campus monument honors Katherine Johnson, who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first human spaceflight and safely land Apollo 11 on the moon.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.