A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

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

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

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

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

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

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

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

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

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

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

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

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.