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

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

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

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

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

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

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

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

The oldest arboretum on the Dalmatian coast doubles as the gardens of Kings Landing in "Game of Thrones."

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.