Seattle Bucket List

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

An underground library specializing in underground knowledge.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

This secluded, man-made waterfall marks the birthplace of the United Parcel Service.

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

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

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

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

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

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

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

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Always a new use for this old building.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

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

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

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

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

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.

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