Places CaveVex Wants to Go

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

America's first public mental health facility.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

The clock that sets them all.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

This former office building has been transformed into an immersive music venue and art space.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.