Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Swim or sail to this pie-slinging boat off the coast of St. Thomas.

Once forgotten, this strip of sand was a rare beachside haven for Black Americans in Atlantic City.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.