Places DrJennT Wants to Go

Crawfish hand pies, Natchitoches meat pies, and all manner of other sweet or savory, flaky-crusted pastries abound here.

A unique auditory experience right on the sidewalk.

A Berkeley sidewalk etched with 128 cast-iron poems.

This 28-foot-tall milk can contains one of the most whimsical ice cream parlors in town.

This swanky speakeasy is Denver’s oldest bar—and hasn’t changed a bit since 1933.

Trek up to an abandoned fire lookout from the 1930s for an unimpeded view.

Meet cowboys and ancient beardogs at this one-of-a-kind crossroads of Western history.

Marvel at 400-year-old trees in one of the last remaining old-growth Appalachian forests.

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

Check out the Heidelberg printing presses in the workshop of an artist known for documenting the natural world on greeting cards.

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

A 19th-century blast furnace that played a big role in the area’s industrial development.

Anyone can play paleontologist at this quarry that has Cambrian fossils galore.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

Large metal sculptures spread throughout an open landscape.

A mass of iron named for the fire-dwelling mythological amphibian sits alongside the first west coast iron furnace.

A remarkably well-preserved one room schoolhouse that dates back to 1876.

Right here, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition boiled ocean water to make salt.

Bronze sculpture paying homage to Norma “Duffy” Lyon, famous for creating a life-size cow made of butter at the state fair.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

This bird statue was created to mark the site of a radio transmitter.

The oldest functioning restaurant in the state of Illinois, operating since 1847.

Giant quails play and greet visitors at a suburban park.