Places AF Wants to Go

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

Part of an abandoned19th-century fortress hides in plain sight inside a modern office building.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

These ruins of Francis Bacon's once-magnificent manor are hidden in the English countryside.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

An obelisk marks the spot where a British explorer's heart was buried before the rest of his body was transported to England.

Now abandoned, this stone church was part of the missionary efforts that initiated the Christianization of Zambia.

A stone memorial marks the spot where the fighting of World War I finally ceased—three days after the armistice was signed in Europe.

A memorial in the middle of a roundabout marks the spot where German forces formally surrendered, finally ending World War I in Africa.

An abandoned World War II tank left to rust in the downland.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.