Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Estonia's largest creative city is a vibrant bohemian hub located within a former industrial complex.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.