Places torivashon Wants to Go

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

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

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

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

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

Always a new use for this old building.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

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

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

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.