Places sarahltait Wants to Go

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

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

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.