Places AF Wants to Go

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

A botanical hideaway sits inside the ruins of a half-built Civil War fort.

Former sea turtle kraals, slaughterhouse, and cannery turned museum.

This monument, 60 feet tall and 30 feet wide, is an exact replica of one in Ponta Delgada, Azores.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

Believed to be the birthplace of the United States Marine Corps.

Where some of America's earliest LGBTQ rights protests marched each Fourth of July

A tribute to Rhode Island's state bird, a domesticated chicken breed that dominated the 19th-century poultry industry.

A centuries-old Virginia mill pond is also an outdoor classroom where history is told through recipes.

Amid miles of wooded trails lies the story of one of America’s earliest free Black communities.

This park offers one of the easiest ways to paddle into a Chesapeake landscape that has looked much the same for centuries.

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A rare example of pre-Revolutionary war Georgian-style architecture in Virginia's Piedmont region.

Solitary stones tell the story of an early battle in one of colonial America’s most brutal and forgotten wars.

The parking lot of a northern Virginia shopping center is host to a monument to Korea’s greatest naval commander, to include a scale model replica of the Turtle Boat he made famous.

Baltimore’s longest row of identical attached houses

Two statues of the fictitious toy robots that ran afoul of local government

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

The preserved historic home of the largest slave-owning family in Massachusetts serves as a memorial and a testament to the history of enslavement and abolition in the state

This plaque commemorates the birthplace of the longest-ruling Thai monarch and the third longest of any sovereign state

A Provincetown shop that sells exactly one thing — a pink cupcake — and whose owner fought the town for the right to keep selling it.

This house of worship contains a dozen stained glass windows by a renowned manufacturer