Places CaveVex Wants to Go

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.