Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

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

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

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

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

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

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

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

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.