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

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

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

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

Always a new use for this old building.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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 beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

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