The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

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

This Old Town cabin tells the story of Tacoma's settlement through a replica of its first non-Native building.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

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

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

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

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.