Places AF Wants to Go

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

New Brunswick's tallest mountain is the highest point in all the Maritimes.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.