Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

Old 'Nutcracker' sculptures from 'Where the Wild Things Are' author found new life as a seasonal attraction.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

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

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

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

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

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

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

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

Always a new use for this old building.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

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

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.