Places AF Wants to Go

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.