Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

The beautiful non-repeating pattern honors the Oxford professor who discovered it.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

This small island was the first National Wildlife Refuge ever created in the United States.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

A unique collection of electric insulators on display in a former transformer station.

The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.

On a river island north of Bangkok, a small bar helped lead a home-brewing rebellion.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.