Places Gravefog Wants to Go

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

The library of every book lover's dreams.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

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

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

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

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.