The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

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

Always a new use for this old building.

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

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

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

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.

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