Places RakelOm Wants to Go

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.