Places CaveVex Wants to Go

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

An eerie site of reverence for those who have completed an epic journey.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.