Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Inaccessible by foot, Japan's most secluded train station sits in the middle of nowhere.

A shrine dedicated to the sacred white snakes of Iwakuni, whose albinism has been passed down for generations.

This ancient burial cave along a roadside is also home to several Buddhist sculptures.

Stretching for 22 miles, the world's longest tree-lined avenue dates back to the early 17th-century.

A culturally significant rural temple in the beautiful mountains of Itoshima.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

The birthplace of Japanese coinage.

Nestled amid the trees lies an abandoned funicular railway that dates back to the 1920s.

These tiny pine-covered islands have inspired art and poetry for centuries.

A wooden prison doesn't sound like a good idea, yet this abandoned 1950s detention center still stands today.