Places RakelOm Wants to Go

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

A boardwalk winds above this beautiful bog full of wildlife and a rare type of turtle.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.