Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

Relics from as far back as the 16th century are on display in a city known for its playing card industry.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

Life-size animals and furniture made entirely from cardboard fill this odd paper-themed restaurant.

One of the world's largest tractors was built to replace camel caravans.

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

These miniature works of art are hiding in plain sight on buildings around the city.