Places CaveVex Wants to Go

Where hikers on the Tecumseh Trail can exchange a dirty sock for a free geode.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

This museum of miniature displays provides a journey through early American history.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.