Places RakelOm Wants to Go

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.