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

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Locals transformed this Canadian evergreen into a secret hangout with spectacular views of Vancouver's skyline.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.