Places egoddess Wants to Go

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

Always a new use for this old building.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Orcas on display and in the water.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

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

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.