The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

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

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

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

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

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

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

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

This unique collection collects pieces of art etched into thin pieces of stone.

These statues pay homage to the "green corridor" of parks and wetlands.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.