Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

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