Places pacnorthwester Wants to Go

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.

A mysterious sculpture is hidden in Vancouver's Stanley Park.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.