Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.