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

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

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

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

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

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

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

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

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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.

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.