Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

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

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.