Places GRH Wants to Go

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

This sculpture of a rhinoceros suspended above a city square is meant to evoke the weight of the human condition.

A miniature beach in the middle of the desert.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.