Places AF Wants to Go

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.