Places Cowshow Wants to Go

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

This high-desert oasis spotlights some of Colorado’s most sacred native plants.

One of the world's largest hedge letterings spells out this arboretum's name over 2,040 feet.

A small and tranquil hidden garden in commemoration of one of the great Victorian plant collectors.

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

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

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

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

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

An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

This five-star hotel was originally a swanky parking garage.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

This Volcano-like rest area was designed by architect Giulio Ceppi built according to energy efficiency and ecological footprint standards.

This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.

This spaceship-like structure was once a popular roadside restaurant.

Singapore's Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West is a social hotspot for songbirds and their humans.

This unique bird reserve sits within an important fragment of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.

An eccentric memorial garden to the "warrior" birds of World War I, the messenger pigeons used by the Allied forces.