Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

The oldest working Brewery in Britain.

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

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

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.