Places abirayner Wants to Go

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.