Places lizsullivan Wants to Go

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

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

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

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

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

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

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

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

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

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.