Travel back in time, or way into the future, where would you go, if you had a time machine?

In one of the earliest science fiction novels that describe time travel, H. G. Wells crafts a masterful story of a time traveler who tests his newly built time machine. Although his friends greet him with skepticism, to everybody’s surprise, his time machine works. He travels to a future world where he finds that humans have evolved beyond his wildest dreams. At the same time, however, he finds that the world of the future is filled with dreaded monsters.