Places AF Wants to Go

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

A living history village recreates a vanished 19th century community.

A hidden mid-city oasis, built for pollinators amid the concrete of federal buildings

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

The poet Walt Whitman was a frequent visitor to this spot, the highest on Long Island.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

A thousand years old and the largest of its kind in the world.

Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

The home and final resting place of the first native-born American saint