Places AF Wants to Go

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

Nobody's quite sure who erected this monument marking the spot where a gray wolf was shot and killed.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

This cultural center showcases what may be the oldest ongoing community in all of North America.

Faded remnants of the entrance to a Mediterranean-style resort that never fully came to life.

The ruins of this once-grand mansion are linked to one of the country’s most popular clothing brands.

This historic jailhouse was designed by famed architect Robert Mills.

These tree-filled acres are also filled with history, hiking and a celebration of Appalachian crafts.

The studio and home of one of America’s preeminent mid-century sculptors.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A humble reconstruction of the rather lively former capitol building.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

This former courthouse is allegedly the site of the last witch trial in the United States.

Right here, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition boiled ocean water to make salt.

A mass of iron named for the fire-dwelling mythological amphibian sits alongside the first west coast iron furnace.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.