Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

Saunter along the banks of one of North Carolina’s wildest rivers

This abandoned building with a murky history has been both a school and a prison.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

A lovingly created and maintained collection of decorative gourd art.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

The place where houses are born.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

Remarkably preserved body discovered in a peat bog.

This medieval castle was painted pink as part of a now-abandoned children's theme park.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.

Incredible labyrinth of man made caves.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.