Places Karin Kross Wants to Go

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.