Places GRH Wants to Go

Austin’s first public mural is a 50-year-old psychedelic time capsule where armadillos, musicians, outlaws and local legends hide an entire city’s history in plain sight.

This medieval castle was reconstructed by Carlo Scarpa.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

A rare example of a medieval house in Rome adorned with a melancholic inscription.

Old-style open-air cages bringing you from Gubbio’s city center to the San'Ubaldo Basilica.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

A waterfall coming through an old stone wall, in a small canyon where 3 creeks converge.

A 3rd-century Roman villa in Kourion with one of the only mosaics in Cyprus to depict gladiators fighting by name.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

The ruins of a thousand-year-old hermitage are tucked away deep in the sloping forests of Albano Lake.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

A colossal aqueduct from the second century B.C., deeply hidden in a gorge on the outskirts of Rome.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

An expansive collection donated by an heirless nobleman formed this admission-free civic museum.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.