Places AF Wants to Go

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.