Places mvancott Wants to Go

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

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

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.

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

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.