Places raquel9e Wants to Go

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.