Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

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

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

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

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

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

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

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

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.