Places rbowptown Wants to Go

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

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

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

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

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

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

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

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

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

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

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

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

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

Orcas on display and in the water.