Places GRH Wants to Go

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Founded by a Basque immigrant, Mexico City's oldest bakery has a history dating back to 1870.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Legend has it that centuries ago, a ghost once frequented this candy shop to feed her still-living baby.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

This beloved cheeseburger-slinging trailer holds Nashville's oldest beer license.

East Nashville's oldest dive bar will bring you back to life with animal-style bar fare.

Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

The oldest candy store in England has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

This abandoned, spaceship-like building is home to a museum so unpopular that it has been put on hiatus for over two decades.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

The fictional birthplace of the Chief Engineer aboard the Starship Enterprise.

This statue standing near Sweden's southernmost point was based on the grandmother of a modern movie star.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.