Places hiImWhitney Wants to Go

The oldest independent bottling plant in America was built directly over an ancient spring — and famously rejected Coca-Cola.

Tucked away on Somerville Avenue is a curated mycological gallery.

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

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

Tucked away in Seward Park is Seattle’s only old-growth forest.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

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

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

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

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

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

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

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

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

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

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