Places crabbyapples Wants to Go

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

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

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

Always a new use for this old building.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

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

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.