Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

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

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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

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.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

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.

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

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

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

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

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.