Places milanaprince Wants to Go

A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

A historic hotel with many stories of haunted activity.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

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

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

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

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

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

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

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