Places GRH Wants to Go

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

The only place where can you share a seat with the bums of the Fab Four.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

If it wasn’t for a real estate agent with a penchant for old-school arcades, this hands-on collection of nostalgic flipper machines might never exist.

The imprints of astronaut Charles Duke’s moon boots live on at Myrtle Beach’s official South Carolina Hall of Fame.