Places RakelOm Wants to Go

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.