Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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

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.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

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 offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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

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

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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