Places CaveVex Wants to Go

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

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

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.