Places CaveVex Wants to Go

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.