Places REvans Wants to Go

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

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

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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.

Sharing the often-overlooked story of America's Black soldiers.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

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

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

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

The window above the urinal in the men's restroom is a giant periscope that offers a panoramic view of Eagle Harbor.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Memorial commemorating the deadliest landslide in U.S. history.