Places RHF Wants to Go

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.