Have you ever seen the 1985 movie Back to the Future? The main character in the film, Marty McFly, goes time traveling with "Doc" Brown, who invents the time machine. Marty goes back to the past to meet his future parents in their younger years, and then to the future in the movie sequels to meet his children.
The protagonist [1] scientist in Herbert George Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine also invents the time machine and travels to the future, which was somewhat more "deteriorated [2] than his own time," contrary to the typical expectation of a better destination than what was left behind.
Time travel is a frequent motif in creative pieces. There's no time machine yet, but over the centuries, many people have imagined and said, 'What if I get to time travel?'
If you had a time machine and were able to time travel, to where and when would you like to go?