Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A science teacher's dream.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The middle finger of modernity.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.