Places Gravefog Wants to Go

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Fragments of a massive unfinished sculpture sit near the main quad of the University of Illinois.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.