Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.