Places hopemch Wants to Go

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

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

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

Orcas on display and in the water.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

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