A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

The oldest remaining building in Tacoma was once the home of the "oldest bell tower" in America.

This statue honors Marvin Klegman, a heroic child who died while saving another boy's life in a 1949 earthquake, and shares his long untold story.

This municipal sundial has been keeping time along Tacoma's Commencement Bay since 1978.

This waterfront restaurant was the life of the party until a crime syndicate burned it to the ground.

This landmark vessel dry-berthed in Tacoma's harbor served in emergencies and ceremonies for more than 50 years.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

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.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

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

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

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

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

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