A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

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

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

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

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

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