A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

Always a new use for this old building.

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.