Places CaveVex Wants to Go

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.