Places DrJennT Wants to Go

This sculptural piece by the artist Tom Otterness doubles as a jungle gym.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

A rare forest habitat nestled behind two sand dunes.

This 25-foot-tall gorilla made his way from the Wildwood boardwalk to a Pine Barrens gas station and deli.

The C. A. Nothnagle Log House stands as the oldest surviving log cabin in the United States, offering a remarkable glimpse into America's colonial past.

The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.

One of the rare, saucer-shaped prefabricated homes designed by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the 1960s.

This mountain clearing, created during World War II for an oil pipeline, provides a view of NYC from 40 miles away.

A memorial to revolutionaries who opposed British taxation.

This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.

Fill up your senses in this beautiful riverside garden, dedicated to the works of singer-songwriter John Denver.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

Plaque commemorating the location of a underground nuclear bomb test in the 1970s.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

The Rosie the Riveter statue in Clarksville, Indiana, honors a real-life riveter who worked on B-24 bombers.

A Fibonnaci spiral model of our solar system.

A unique 3-D sculpture based on Rene Magritte’s “The Red Model.”

On the site of a former Army ammunition plant, bison now roam a restored sea of grass.