The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

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.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

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

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

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

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

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

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

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.