Places RHF Wants to Go

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A lush desert oasis in the shape of a narrow crescent.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

A monument to the small town of master violin makers and its countless luthiers.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The final resting place of the famous violinist, after his corpse was denied a proper Catholic burial for decades.

Named for its similarity to the tip of a violin's bow, this striking formation was created by millions of years of erosion.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

The remains of a Dominican friary, once one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.