Places RHF Wants to Go

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

A slope with a mysterious name recalls a discontinued pre-war energy drink.

The site of a dress rehearsal for D-Day that ended in disaster.

An excavation site that signified Hercules in Pula, and a glimpse into the city's Roman history.

This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.

This reconstructed castle was once the base of the “Devil King” who almost united the feudal warring states.

A bizarre object of worship believed to grant wishes to those who tie it up with a rope.

The bust of a 15th-century Albanian leader in the middle of London.

Where the people of Gozo have been doing laundry for more than six centuries.

A poignant site that pays tribute to lives lost at sea.

A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

A stream flows near the radioactive spa, where people place handmade miniatures of water mills and other strange devices.

Reminiscent of a termite mound, this imposing structure is likely an ancient funerary monument.

First Nations’ foodways are front and center at this food truck-turned-brick-and-mortar.

A monument dedicated in memory of the over 100,000 civilian deaths during the liberation of Manila in World War II.

This old Soviet gas station is in perfect condition, one of the best-preserved mosaics in the country.

The lesser-known eastern counterpart to Kyoto’s famous fox shrine.

This tiny museum honors the rural country doctor experience.

This whimsical statue marks the high water level from the Great Flood of 1993.

Ruins from the Parthenon and petrified wood line the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments.

Pay your respects at the final resting place of the man behind one of the best-known names in food.