Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.