Places AF Wants to Go

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The remains of the worst military aviation accident in Canada's history.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

This early Norman castle was the first historical monument protected by an act of Parliament.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.