Places Jess Wants to Go

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

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

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

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

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

This educational and eco-friendly community is Iceland's "home of the sun."

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.