Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

Despite being of the most short-lived republics in history, this small Chilean town won’t forget its two days of independence.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The enigmatic sculpture hides above an escalator in a Milan metro station.

The first, and perhaps only, monument dedicated to Wikipedia.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.