Places carriemeech Wants to Go

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

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

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

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

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

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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

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

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

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

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.