A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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

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

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

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

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.

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

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

The "Mother Temple of the Pacific Islands" stands at the center of 20 acres of lush, tropical prayer gardens.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.