This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

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.

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

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

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

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

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

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

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

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

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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

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

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.