Places GRH Wants to Go

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A colorful and enigmatic cemetery in the middle of nowhere.

Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

Water still flows through the oldest Spanish aqueduct in America.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

The trunk of this 700-year-old tree measures more than 60 feet around, making it the oldest and largest baobab in Sri Lanka.

The massive mountain ash that once stood at this site was cut down in an effort to prove that it was, indeed, the tallest of its kind.

This atmospheric museum honors a family who hid Jews during the Nazi occupation of Latvia.

Prague's "Little Hanoi" is one of the commercial centers of Czechia's Vietnamese community.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

A self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state on a tiny bit of disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia.

This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee."