Places RHF Wants to Go

The birthplace of Jane Austen commemorated the 200th anniversary of her death with a bronze statue of the beloved author.

This Baltic beauty is rumored to grant a wish and a half.

After decades of damage, this feat of timekeeping and automaton art has been given a new lease on life.

Eat fish and chips in a striking Neoclassical building that once hid a public lavatory.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Orcas on display and in the water.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A towering sword embedded in the ground commemorates the legendary Slavic ruler.

The location of the site of one of the defining battles of feudal Japan is being fought over by two neighboring cities.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

This rural Australian restaurant claims to be the only restaurant in the world to be built almost entirely of sea shells.

A glimpse into life in 1830s Tokyo, back during the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

At this multicultural hub, refugee chefs serve the foods they miss most from home.