Places RakelOm Wants to Go

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

For over 40 years, this quaint little house has teetered on a rock in the middle of a river.

The bizarre rocks of Đavolja Varoš are the result of natural erosion.

It might not be the prettiest pyramid in Egypt, but it may be the muddiest.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

A labor of love and aviation in Nigeria.

The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

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