Places CaveVex Wants to Go

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

A single handprint, which, according to Ohio State University legend, cannot be scrubbed off.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

Rare and classic books by Black authors are the focus at this independent bookstore in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.