Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.