A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

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

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

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

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

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

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

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

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

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

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.