Places Jessica M Bowers Wants to Go

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A replica that won't float away.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

Orcas on display and in the water.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.