Places Michael Glass Wants to Go

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

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

Old 'Nutcracker' sculptures from 'Where the Wild Things Are' author found new life as a seasonal attraction.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

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

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.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

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

Orcas on display and in the water.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.