Places CaveVex Wants to Go

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.