With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.