Places Emily Kemp Wants to Go

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The rodent-shaped sidewalk imprint that earned worldwide media attention.

From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.