Places randledw Wants to Go

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

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

Meet me at the most confusing intersection in Seattle.

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

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

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