Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Several land speed world records were shattered at this Welsh beach.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.