Places AMARA MOON Wants to Go

Old 'Nutcracker' sculptures from 'Where the Wild Things Are' author found new life as a seasonal attraction.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

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

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

This tiny cottage surrounded by railroads is the oldest surviving structure in Fairmount Park.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.