Places IgFan Wants to Go

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

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.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

A hidden Brooklyn basement gallery where two biologists nurture one of the Northeast’s rarest and most vibrant reptile collections.

Coney Island’s last surviving haunted ride.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

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

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

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

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.