This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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

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

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

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

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

Always a new use for this old building.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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