Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

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

Always a new use for this old building.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.