Places AF Wants to Go

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

This enormous photomural pays homage to Vancouver's infamous history of public activism.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

The ruins of a monastery where Saint Bridget of Sweden had her revelations recorded.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

This fireplace-turned-monument pays tribute to the assassinated U.S. president.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

The Scottish Reformation leader's grave was paved over and is now a parking lot.