Places stenaavel Wants to Go

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

The largest non-native tree in Washington

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.