Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.