Places Ealfieri Wants to Go

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.