A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

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

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

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

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

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

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

The spur that wouldn’t die.