Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

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

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

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

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

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

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

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

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