Places GRH Wants to Go

Rubbing the buttons along this statue's coat is considered good luck.

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

This Baltic beauty is rumored to grant a wish and a half.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

Honor lost loved ones at this serene wind phone hidden in an environmental preserve.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

The dining outpost of a Kissimmee Mexican food empire.

Come for the mofongo, stay for the Puerto Rican house party.

Welcome to a wonderland of Venezuelan empanadas.

Dominican cuisine like your grandma made it—but with teriyaki glazes and hand-rolled cigars.

Costa Rican coffee and Venezuelan cuisine, made with painstaking attention to detail.

Where the locals flock for the authentic flavors of Puerto Rico's pinchos.

Juicy Argentinian empanadas so good they’re worth a stain or two

A pan-Latin bistro where the world comes together over homemade sandwiches and a cup of coffee.

Dominican sushi rolls, served by “the Ninja” himself.

The rounded structure has evolves from service station to citrus to souvenirs to Charley survivor.

The whole world is cooking in one Kissimmee parking lot.

One of the oldest art supply stores in the United States.

A large portion of this navigable canal runs under Paris's famed boulevards.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.