Places TopherRocks Wants to Go

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

Tucked away in Seward Park is Seattle’s only old-growth forest.

A mesmerizing amount of crazy art is attached to the side of this house on Seattle's Phinney Ridge, bringing smiles to those who venture down the driveway to take a look.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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

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.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

A real-life hidden Easter Egg in New Hampshire's capital city

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.