360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

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

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

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

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

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

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

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

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

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

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

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

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.