Places jordank Wants to Go

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

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

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

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

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

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

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

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

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

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

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

One of the best collections of Byzantine art housed in a magnificent, 19th-century neoclassical home.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.