Places Emily Kemp Wants to Go

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

This charming fountain honors Felix Salten, the creator of the iconic storybook deer.

Residing along a busy thoroughfare, this sculpture urges passersby to consider the future.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.