This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

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

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

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

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

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.