Places brockr Wants to Go

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

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

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Always a new use for this old building.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

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

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

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

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

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.