Places GRH Wants to Go

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Climb 200 stairs up the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast for an unbeatable view.

From a distance it looks like a real castle, but up close everything is slightly too small.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

For centuries, this gold mine was the powerhouse behind the Tokugawa Shogunate.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.