Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

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

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

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

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A historic 1929 art-house cinema that features independent, classic, cult, and foreign films in an atmospheric setting.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.