A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

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

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

Always a new use for this old building.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

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

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.