Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

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

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

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