Places GRH Wants to Go

The childhood home of the award-winning novelist and short story writer.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Cartoon clouds and nature-inspired murals have transformed the streets of Kuala Lumpur.

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

This massive 286,200-tile mosaic was the largest mural of its kind in the United States and is an early example of computer-generated art.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

A small, but very well curated, museum of cars, propaganda, and toys of socialist Bulgaria.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

Stand inside the dark interior of an historic redwood tree that once was used as a general's headquarters.

One of the few Civil War monuments to honor a specific enlisted soldier.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Once a major stop on the Hejaz Railway, this desert station (complete with steam locomotive) has been abandoned for decades.

Initially meant to immortalize the valor of the colonizer, this monument is now a symbol of Mauritanian resistance.