Places ciffergan Wants to Go

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

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

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

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