Places Scott Terrell Wants to Go

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

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

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

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

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

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.