Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

If you've ever wanted to tear Hello Kitty apart with your teeth, this is the place.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

A biblically accurate ark located beneath a Hong Kong bridge is fun for the whole Christian family.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

Underground monastery and fortress.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.

A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.