Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

You'll never meet anyone this passionate about elephant droppings.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.