Places kuukisu Wants to Go

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

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

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

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

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.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

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

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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