Places Guthbrand Wants to Go

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

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

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

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

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

Always a new use for this old building.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

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

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

It's believed a castle existed at this site since the 12th century.