Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

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

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

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

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

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

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

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

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

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

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

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

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

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.