One way to explore a place or journey is to create a photo-diary. Help children to create pages with pictures and words by following the instructions on this site. When you have made several pages link them together into an album. In this example Biscuit the toy dog goes on a journey and finds something unexpected...
Biscuit goes exploring
Adventures of a little dog who lives at school
Biscuit goes on a train...
I wonder where he's off to?