Places Petersonia Wants to Go

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.