Places AF Wants to Go

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.