Places RakelOm Wants to Go

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.