Places AF Wants to Go

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Impressive mining ruins overlook a spectacular view of Ireland's Copper Coast.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

A drab two-story office space in Delaware is a hidden tax haven for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and over half the Fortune 500 companies.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.