Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

An unusual monument to a 19th-century circus star.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

A magnificent mansion hides a delightful collection of historic timepieces.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Lord Byron's embalmed body lies within this medieval church.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.