Places robinfournet Wants to Go

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

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

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

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

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

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

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

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