Places Emily Kemp Wants to Go

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Tiny museum with unusual specimens.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Venice's island of the dead.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Sample Spanish wines under frescoes in a historic monastery of "barefoot old men."

This underwater graveyard commemorates a group of murdered 16th-century missionaries.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

The only natural cave bath in all of Europe.

300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Roma who struck it rich in the 1980s built extravagant mansions in this small Romanian town.

This is the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler Vlad III Dracul.