Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Locals say the stone that marks the spot where the gallows once stood can lead you astray.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

These boots are made for selfies.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

Wall after wall of this French seaside neighborhood is intricately decorated with seashells and corals.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

Ancient stone dildos and other odd pieces of medical history are displayed at this quirky Cyprus gem.

Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

This garden is very fertile.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

The falls were named for the mistaken idea that they were the ones pictured on the Canadian $5 bill.