Places lelandbuck Wants to Go

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

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

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

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

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.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

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

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

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

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

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

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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

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

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.