Places Ruben Stemple Wants to Go

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

Finding the exact middle of a giant land mass is hard to determine, but this spot managed to do the trick.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.