Places rosspatterson Wants to Go

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

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

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.

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 pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Bizarre Cavern.