Places CaveVex Wants to Go

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Mexico City's natural history museum has seen better days but still holds some enchanting treasures within its kitsch walls