Places kristinwilliams2007 Wants to Go

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

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

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

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

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.