Places RakelOm Wants to Go

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

An underwater city for the dead.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.