Places AF Wants to Go

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This former military airfield's claim to fame came from a lucky accident during the Second World War.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.