Places stephsrs Wants to Go

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

The smallest bar in Amsterdam has stayed in the family since 1798.

A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.

An independent cinema housed in a former pathological anatomy laboratory.

This bronze statue of Martin Luther King was placed in the park without permission.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

This plaque marks the former home of one of the first women physicians in the Netherlands.

A set of seven houses, each built in a style that represents a European country.

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

A memorial dedicated to the famed North Pole explorer appropriately sits at the far edge of Arlington National Cemetery.

It is a 50-foot tall sculpture made of a reclaimed wind turbine wing, concrete, steel, and coins from around the world, located off the Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia suburbia.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.