Places redfish513 Wants to Go

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Cross the Continental Divide through an old railroad tunnel, and ride back to the top on a shuttle.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

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

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

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

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

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

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

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

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

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

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

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.