Places gitchsup Wants to Go

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

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

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

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

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.