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This light-filled guest apartment’s unusual name derives from the owner’s artistic proclivities and philosophical outlooks. The beautiful garden setting atop the Magnolia Hill is a real plus, and you can rent the space by the week or by the month.

Wild Ginger’s gourmet-meets-Asian cuisine offers such delicacies as satay and sauces, mango pork lamb satay, and soups. Its location across the street from Benaroya Hall is spacious, so waits are not usually a problem unless you happen to arrive on a show night.

A lesbian-centric club, although it encourages a mixed and permissive crowd to assemble. The drinks are on the strong side.

For one of the country’s premier windsurfing meccas, you’ll have to go to Hood River, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge. If extreme sports are not your style, Seattle has two prime locations for all who want to let the wind sweep them away — along the west shores of Lake Washington, between Magnuson Beach and Seward Park; and at Golden Gardens Park where Shilshole Bay meets Puget Sound.

Rent bareboats, or take sailing lessons.

Named for a dynamic civic leader who lobbied for Asian-American rights, this museum fulfills Wing’s dream to showcase the culture and history of Asian immigrants. Artifacts include Chinese lanterns and a 50-ft (15-m) dragon boat.

Step in for an enviable selection of poetry, calligraphy, history, social sciences, cookbooks, gardening, mysteries, and children’s literature. They also brew up all kinds of tea, available for tasting, and sponsor readings.

This 93-mile (149-km) trail through several mini-ecosystems around the mountain is ideal for serious backpackers with weeks to spare.

New visitors to the Woodland Park Zoo often bump into this gated area near one of the Zoo entrances. Others, nearly a quarter million annually, make sure to wake up and smell the roses. About 5,000 individual plants and 280 varieties of rose turn this 2.5-acre corner of north Seattle into a technicolor dream.