Places sweeneysblade Wants to Go

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

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

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

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

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

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

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

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

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

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