Places sweetm917 Wants to Go

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

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

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

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

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.