Places danpat155 Wants to Go

A pentagram-covered shrine dedicated to a famed court astrologer known in the west as the Merlin of Japan.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

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

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

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