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

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.

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

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

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

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

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

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

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

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

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

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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

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

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

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

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