Places GRH Wants to Go

Listen to the sounds of the Earth moving along the Rose Canyon Fault.

This small town is home to Ontario’s answer to Punxsutawney Phil.

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

This museum honors the farming past of the “Salad Bowl of the World.”

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A time capsule of life in Southern Florida in the 1930s.

The largest open-air museum in southern Europe, where nature and contemporary art exist in harmony.

Get lost in the fantasy underworld of Thai serpents where wishes are granted

The very rock that killed the stonemason marks his grave.

Japan's legendary filmmaker is interred in a small graveyard in a similarly modest temple in Kamakura.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The site of the fossilized remains of some of Earth’s earliest primitive, microbial life forms.

For many people the Hungarian Parliament building is a must-see stop on any visit to the capital but there is an equally stunning replica hidden in a basement.

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.