Places Gravefog Wants to Go

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A science teacher's dream.