Places RHF Wants to Go

This botanical garden boasts sculptures, industrial ruins, and an endorsement from the Dalai Lama.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

This ancient causeway can flood daily, leaving Mersea Island as a true island for hours at a time, and cutting its 7,000 residents off from the mainland.

The enigmatic symbol on this incineration plant's smokestack is, in fact, a one-of-a-kind clock.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

A sculpture dedicated to the trade that gave the town its name.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

In 1912, a broken section of the reservoir wall released millions of gallons of water and destroyed many homes downhill.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

This operational mill has survived centuries of destruction and construction.

A rare double mill nestled along the banks of the Aa river.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

The sump of the landlocked Carson River is a haven for wildlife.