Places raychelhessler Wants to Go

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Always a new use for this old building.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

These split boulders mark equinoxes and solstices along the Seattle skyline.

A mesmerizing amount of crazy art is attached to the side of this house on Seattle's Phinney Ridge, bringing smiles to those who venture down the driveway to take a look.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.