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

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

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

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

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

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.