This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.