Places RakelOm Wants to Go

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

The inscribed stone at Kilnasaggart is a remnant from nearly a millennium ago.

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

This hidden bridge is where local children leave gifts and messages for the island's fay folk.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

This magnificent 18th-century hall consists of a maze of nearly a thousand interconnected passages.

The hottest place on the planet.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.

Traditional architecture and ancient irrigation systems are on display in this gorgeous mountain village.

Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.

These gnarly desert trees produce the prized aromatic resin traded along the ancient incense trail.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

A 12th-century church with a medieval fresco and an intriguing “Greek runestone.”

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.