Places DrJennT Wants to Go

An amazing example of early-20th-century architecture, this church features marble transported from Utah.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

Surrounded by a verdant garden and a backdrop of ivy, a monument to beloved poet Khalil Gibran stands outside of the Lebanese embassy.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

A glimpse of the Pacific Northwest‘s indigenous culture in Washington, D.C.

Ruins from the Parthenon and petrified wood line the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments.

A purported 17th-century religious artifact with noteworthy associations to Catholic history in the U. S.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

Walk up a ramp through a forest for panoramic views of Lake Michigan.

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

Built in France in the 1400s, this gothic chapel now resides at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The last original miniature duckpin bowling lanes in America, located in a Milwaukee dive bar.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.