Places kitvishnu Wants to Go

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

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

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

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

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

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

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

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

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

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.