Places CaveVex Wants to Go

Half curiosity cabinet, half late night hotspot, this Brazilian bar is helping turn a dangerous neighborhood around.

This museum on the site of a former rubber plantation showcases the harsh conditions to which rubber tappers in the Amazon were subjected.

The skeletal remains of an ancient human were found with the bones of giant ground sloths.

A shrine to a 19th-century femicide victim turned miracle worker.

Retro-futuristic contraptions made from recycled materials near a Brazilian resort town.

This spaceship-like structure was once a popular roadside restaurant.

After a terrible drought, townspeople used wine to build this church.

This peak in Chapada Diamantina National Park offers the most stunning sunsets.

The mystery of Brazil's "Land of Twins" has led to wild theories such as Nazi genetic experiments.

In this Brazilian city, a vertical graveyard rules the skyline.

A natural waterslide in Brazil’s most expansive national park.

Something about this Brazilian city is slightly askew... literally.

A hidden and beautiful waterfall in middle of one of the biggest urban forests of the world.

This São Paulo home became a lifelong prison for a woman with a tragic childhood.

This haunting sculpture stands as a memorial to the torture victims of the Brazilian military dictatorship.

The building that once housed the dictator's secret police is now a museum that documents the history of an oppressive regime and those who fought against it.

This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.

This unique bird reserve sits within an important fragment of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.

What killed this humpback whale is a mystery, but its remains have become legendary.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

This anthropological museum offers a glimpse into the lives of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon River Basin.

A puppy slum that protects canines from the cruelties of the human slums.

Brasilia's oldest newsstand is sheltered by a wish-granting tunnel-tree.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.