Places irenel Wants to Go

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

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

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.

This museum on San Juan Island is dedicated to the conservation of orca pods.

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

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

The only building in the western U.S. designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

The museum houses one of the world's largest collections of glass paperweights.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

Gas station bathrooms adorned with one of the world’s most infamous typefaces, with quotes ranging from lewd to profound.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.