Places CaveVex Wants to Go

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

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

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

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.