Places rebekkahcook Wants to Go

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

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

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

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

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.