This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

Always a new use for this old building.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

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

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

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

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

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

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

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

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.