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

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

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

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

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

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

A 1542-foot-long suspension bridge offers scenic mountain views.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.