Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

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One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

The world's largest rotating world.

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

A poignant memorial to the 106 coal miners killed in three major accidents in Derbyshire.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

One of the Leiden's oldest pubs is also the birthplace of the Heineken star.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.