The Crawlspace

For more canon information, you should check the Gravity Falls wiki!The Crawlspace is a supernatural black market underneath Gravity Falls, and one of the key locations in Return to the Falls. First appearing in the Gravity Falls: Lost Legends comic book, It is introduced - and destroyed - in It Came From Thrifty's. It then appears in The Hunter, The Historic Horrors of Family Northwest and goes under something of a rebirth in Syndicate. 
Created through the mutual efforts of Curzon Cankerblight and Nathaniel Northwest, the The Crawlspace is a rather medieval, distinctly European subterranean world with tunnels and passageways leading across the town of Gravity Falls, accessed through hundreds of hidden doorways that only fantasy creatures (and Soos, and Dipper, and Quentin Trembley) are capable of visiting. 
In The Historic Horrors of Family Northwest it was revealed that Nathaniel himself was a regular visitor to The Crawlspace through a passage underneath the Northwest Manor. 
With elegant iron lamp posts, crooked buildings, multiple stairways, bridges and more, all lurking directly under the town's feet, the enormous cavern acted not only as a refuge for the town's anomalies, but a prime location for Curzon to operate from the inside, gathering riches, magical ingredients and more from the town's fantasy creatures by running every stall, simultaneously. 
Pascoe the Knocker was placed in the walls of the Crawlspace by Quentin Trembley to keep an eye on the insidious creature, along with a group of humans who were intended to become subterranean mole people - to little success. 
The surprisingly tranquil space proved open to humans during the events of It Came From Thrifty's, even serving them at one of the local cafes with no questions asked - but was every bit as bizarre, dangerous and crooked as before. 
When Curzon was exposed, he demolished much of the space himself in a rage, before it and the Geron street entrance were destroyed through a gas explosion by Pacifica and the Pines. 
With nowhere else to go, the creatures established backalley speakeasies and black markets in the surface streets of Gravity Falls, while The Crawlspace remained abandoned and loaded with wreckage, patched and concreted over by the local authorities. 
In Syndicate, the space was reused by The Clurichauns and their mob boss, Gideon Gleeful - rebuilding the place with tenements and concrete roads that were reminiscent of 1930s urban planning, to suit their film noir characteristics. This, too, was short lived, after a precious metal spill caused the entire place to become a strangely beautiful, glittering grotto. It is now once again regularly used by the town's supernatural elements as a far more peaceful, comfortable and welcoming space.
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