Places AF Wants to Go

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.