A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

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.

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

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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 nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

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

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

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

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

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

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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