Places pacnorthwester Wants to Go

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

A breathtaking viewing platform over the Alps.

During World War II, Austria's oldest salt mine was used to store thousands of pieces of stolen artwork.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

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

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

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

Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

A Berkeley sidewalk etched with 128 cast-iron poems.

A permanent open-air exhibition of stunning, and inherently American, public art.

An unexpected mix of medieval buildings and modern street art.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.