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

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.

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

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

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

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

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

Always a new use for this old building.

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

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

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

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

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

The oldest still-inhabited hill fort in India looks like a magnificent golden sandcastle.

This magical place built as an astronomical center starred as a James Bond villain's lair.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

This structure, built more than 60 years ago to manage devastating seasonal floods, is known to attract a rare species of freshwater dolphin.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.