Places AF Wants to Go

A statue dedicated to the founders of communism.

These ruins once flourished as the capital of the Lydian kingdom, often credited with the invention of metal coinage.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

Hear the roar of the engines and the crowd at this nearly 90-year-old Pennsylvania track.

Descend into a subterranean labyrinth of geologic wonder and local lore.

Overshadowed by quilts, the artistry of these patterned textiles went underappreciated for too long.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

Behind a row of ordinary D.C. houses hides a labyrinth of interconnected art galleries filled with unusual treasures and outsider art.

Hidden away among the quiet streets of Beverly Hills, this small park is a haven for walkers and wildlife.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

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.