Places Karin Kross Wants to Go

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

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

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

At this 16th-century monastery in rural Bulgaria, visitors can also spend the night.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

There's a piece of New York City transportation history hidden in plain sight at a Manhattan subway stop.

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.