Sure Mars is millions of miles away, doesn't support life and there is no possible way you could ever get there, but you can still visit it in a way, by visiting place on earth that are very similar. Some of these places include Death Valley, California where Ubehebe crater and "Mars Hill" have geologic features similar to those on Mars. Also Mono Lake, California, which is a 700,000-year-old evaporate lake that is a lot like Gusev Crater, a basin on Mars where water likely once was. If you are more interested in the colder polar regions of Mars you could visit the permafrost regions in Siberia, Alaska, and Antarctica. Also the volcanoes in Hawaii are very similar to the volcanoes on Mars but are just scaled down a bit. Here in the great state of Washington you could visit Channeled Scabland, where catastrophic floods swept through the land much like what happened long ago in the Ares Vallis flood plain where Mars Pathfinder landed. This is the next best thing to going to Mars. Can I suggest a field trip?
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/atlas/
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