Places AF Wants to Go

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.