Places elizalindley Wants to Go

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

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

Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.

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

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

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

A mesmerizing amount of crazy art is attached to the side of this house on Seattle's Phinney Ridge, bringing smiles to those who venture down the driveway to take a look.

Old 'Nutcracker' sculptures from 'Where the Wild Things Are' author found new life as a seasonal attraction.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.