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

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.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

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

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

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

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

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.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.