This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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

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

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

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

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

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.