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

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

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

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

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

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

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

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

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.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

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

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

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

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

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.

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

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

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