Places Gravefog Wants to Go

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.