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

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

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

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

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

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

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

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

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

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

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

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