Places jordank Wants to Go

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

Always a new use for this old building.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

Stop by to view a fleet of handmade kayaks, all modeled on traditional Arctic hunting vessels.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.