Places Opinicus Wants to Go

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

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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.

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

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

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

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.