Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.