Places AF Wants to Go

A preserved 18th century homestead in Western Pennsylvania marks the spot where the Whiskey Rebellion began.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

Not far from the busy city lie these remains of a time when the world was on fire.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

These two large, rusting pieces of machinery are relics of Australia’s gold mining past.

The remains of a former colonial fort on a stretch of beach that is occasionally visited by crocodiles.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

Marker for a long-gone electric trolley line that spurred the economic development of West Asheville.

This methodist cemetery is slowly receding into the wilderness along a Maryland highway.

Honoring combatants from Portsmouth who served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

Dating to 1793, this is the oldest building in Poolesville.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

Once the center of a thriving early Black community called Martinsburg.

Using a massive antenna made up of five miles of wire, two scientists tuned into organic radio waves from the planet Jupiter.

This village provides a glimpse at rural life in Northern Ireland during the mid-20th-century.