This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

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

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

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.