Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

The ruins of this prominent glass factory yield hidden treasures buried among the jungle floor.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

There's a piece of New York City transportation history hidden in plain sight at a Manhattan subway stop.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.