Places bananachan Wants to Go

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

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

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

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

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

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

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

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

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

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

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

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

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

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

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

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

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.