Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.