Places Karin Kross Wants to Go

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Possibly the world's smallest museum is home to one exhibit that sheds light on the capital city's dark criminal history.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.