Places AF Wants to Go

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.