Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.

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

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

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 boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.