This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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.

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

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

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

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

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

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

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.