Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

This unique medieval court deals solely with the lead mining laws in two small areas of Derbyshire.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.

A stunning medieval castle houses this eclectic, interactive tribute to all things wine.

A monument built to commemorate the billionth barrel of oil extracted from the Seria oil field in Brunei.