Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

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

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

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

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

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

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.