Places claireromama Wants to Go

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.

A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

A children's mosaic in Limassol using deep-sea creature patterns to honor young lives lost across several genocides, including Cyprus’s own 1974 wounds.

The Catedral Basílica de Salvador is special for its stunning Baroque interior and the historic sepulchre of Mem de Sá, connecting the church to Salvador’s colonial past.

Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.

This genuine, blood red Jolly Roger was captured off the North African coast in 1790 by Admiral Richard Curry.

Harvey Milk's (the first openly gay person elected to public office in California) camera shop is now a queer community hub that celebrates his legacy and San Francisco's LGBTQ+ history, past and present.

This remarkable 125-year-old building has survived a bank heist, a rooftop dragon, and more than a century of changing businesses; today, it lives on as FairyCross Bottle Shop.

Since 1877, the characters of Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” have been keeping time in this Leeds arcade.

Raised catwalk walk through the trees alongside a river starting from an abandoned and colorful pumping station.

A 5,000-pound fiberglass channel catfish perches on the banks of the Red River, occasionally taking a swim when spring floodwaters rise.

A waterfall coming through an old stone wall, in a small canyon where 3 creeks converge.