Places RHF Wants to Go

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

The first public library in the Americas has more than 45,000 books dating back to the 15th century.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

Step back in time at this immersive historical village.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

A diorama lover's dream world.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

These 2000 year old remains of a Roman aqueduct are hidden inside a hotel lobby.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.