Places CaveVex Wants to Go

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.