Places RakelOm Wants to Go

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

Siddhartha Gautama sat here and received enlightenment.

At 8,000 feet, the world's highest tea estate draws visitors for both its products and its panoramic views.

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.