Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Always a new use for this old building.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.