A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

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

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

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

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

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

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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 brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

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

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Orcas on display and in the water.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.