Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

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

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

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

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.