Places GRH Wants to Go

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.

With only one flight in and out a week, the unfenced runway at this small island's airport transforms into a seaside park for locals and visitors.

The frozen treats at this Cape Town parlor are inspired by Africa's food cultures.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

A century-old church is now a space museum with a treasure trove of Soviet space items.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.