Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.