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

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

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

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

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

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

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

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

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

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.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.