Places RakelOm Wants to Go

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

At this unusual park, domes, ladders, chairs, and more are made from trees.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

Every year locals give the bear a fresh coat of paint to preserve its signature goofy grin.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An ever-changing gathering of crude wooden figures haunts the St. Lawrence River.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

Iconic rock formations that allow for exploration during high or low tide.