Places RakelOm Wants to Go

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country’s wood bison population.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.