Places Kris Wants to Go

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

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

Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.

This recipe is set in stone.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.