Places GRH Wants to Go

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

The oldest house in Lindsborg, Kansas, includes some fascinating inscriptions.

Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

Made of 41,900 pieces of mosaic, it took two years to piece together this giant egg.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Grab a slice of pizza next to the remains of the "human monkey" who ran for mayor.

Swim or sail to this pie-slinging boat off the coast of St. Thomas.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.