Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

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

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

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

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

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

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

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

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

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

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.