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

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

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

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

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

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

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

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

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

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

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.