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

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

Always a new use for this old building.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

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

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

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

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

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

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

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

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

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

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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

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

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