Places HarrisonB Wants to Go

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

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

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

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

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

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

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