Places sierrawest Wants to Go

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

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

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

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

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

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

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

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

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

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

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

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.