Places prwood Wants to Go

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

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

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.