The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

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

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

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

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

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

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

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

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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

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

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

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.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

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

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.