Places Heather Marcello Wants to Go

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

Always a new use for this old building.

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

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

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

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

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

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

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

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

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.