Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

Legend says this tiny ancient island is the lost ancestral homeland of the Aztecs.

The enormous smoke hides within a little known, semi-secret exhibit inside Havana’s Morro Castle Historic Park.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

This weekly bazaar started in the 1960s as a way for hippie travelers to barter their goods.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

At 16,627 feet above sea level, this unstaffed station is the highest in the world.

After the band included its number in one of their songs, the box became a monument to the musical group.

These sea cliffs are an epic natural wonder.

This towering church is home to a world-famous organ and a treasure trove of medieval art.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

The first thermometer made with the almost-universal temperature scale is backwards.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

A "time traveler's" vision of human history stretches throughout Mexico City's Copilco metro station.

Megapodes incubate their eggs using the heat of an active volcano on this Pacific isle.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.