Places RHF Wants to Go

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

In this scale model, our neighboring planets are represented by metal spheres spread across an English village. The nearest stars are represented by spheres in California and Australia.

This functional solar system model was inspired by the famous Eisinga Planetarium.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The site where two doves fell in love.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.

More than 500 years after his death, a medieval ruler's remains were found buried under a parking lot.

This tiny triangular cottage is one of a kind in England, and has housed everything from a watchmaker's studio to coffin storage.