This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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.

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

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

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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

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

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

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

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

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.