Places shellyt Wants to Go

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

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

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

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

This multi-functional park is a marvel of civic engagement.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

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

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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

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

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

The millstones of an ancient Portuguese gunpowder factory have been kept on display at Old Goa.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

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

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.