Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

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

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

Remnants of the rich history of fish salting in this ancient Mediterranean port town.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

An eerie abandoned gentlemen's club built for British officials during the colonial era.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

Madrid's last horchata kiosk is a blue-and-white beacon of refreshment.

Fans line up at the crack of dawn for a slurpy bowl of deliciousness at this noodle counter inside a factory.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.