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

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

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

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

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

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

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

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.