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

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

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

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.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

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

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

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

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

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

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

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

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.

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

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

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

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.