Places AF Wants to Go

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.