Places Cache Wants to Go

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

A mile-long navigable cave adorned with stalactites and stalagmites reaching up to 65 feet tall.

This serene bamboo walkway allows Buddhist monks from remote temples access to the nearby village.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.