Places coppertoprocks Wants to Go

One of the best views of the city is tucked away at the top of a water tower.

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

Tucked away in Seward Park is Seattle’s only old-growth forest.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

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

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

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

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

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

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