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

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

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

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

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.