Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

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

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

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.