Places AF Wants to Go

A lonely monument to the original Silicon Valley tech campus.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

These murals stand as reminders to the troubled history of this Northern Ireland city.

A network of fortifications that never saw conflict.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

North America's first Indigenous-owned winery is located within Canada's only desert-like ecosystem.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.