Places makoyumi Wants to Go

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

The oldest purpose built museum in Illinois, home to original Victorian taxidermy.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

The oldest functioning restaurant in the state of Illinois, operating since 1847.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.