Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

Israel's first dedicated natural history museum is home to 5 million specimens and still growing.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

The ancient abodes are a testament to human ingenuity amid harsh climates.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

A mysterious phallic rock on the grounds of a Buddhist monastery.