Places Karin Kross Wants to Go

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."