Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.