Places Karin Kross Wants to Go

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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