Places lizmariemccarty Wants to Go

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

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

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

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

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

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

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Narrowest house in Boston.

This is the house that spite built.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.