Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

Hidden in one of the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill, this museum features an 1895 stagecoach and peers into California’s gold-lined history.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

This amazing oasis of art and plants is hidden on the outskirts of Marrakesh.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.