Places GRH Wants to Go

This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

This historic home has survived wars, drought, and financial woes to become a California landmark.

This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.