Places A.M. Brune Wants to Go

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

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

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

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

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.