With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

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

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

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

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

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

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

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

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

Always a new use for this old building.

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

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

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

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.