Places AF Wants to Go

What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

This 18th-century fort surrounded by a moat was used to store gun powder and ammunition, and now sits in the middle of a large park in Dublin.

The church and nearby castle are all that remains of a medieval village, mysteriously abandoned.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.

A beloved horticultural oasis on the grounds of a wealthy family's former estate.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

This artificial lake surrounded by Brutalist architecture served as a stand-in for futuristic Britain in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange.'

What might be the oldest living tree in London has survived fires, bombings, and estate agents.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

The roofless ruins of a church surrounded by acres of bucolic farmland.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.