Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.