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This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

This multi-functional park is a marvel of civic engagement.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

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

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

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

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

The window above the urinal in the men's restroom is a giant periscope that offers a panoramic view of Eagle Harbor.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

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

A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.

This municipal sundial has been keeping time along Tacoma's Commencement Bay since 1978.

The oldest remaining building in Tacoma was once the home of the "oldest bell tower" in America.

This waterfront restaurant was the life of the party until a crime syndicate burned it to the ground.

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

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

True to its name, this little house presents like a dollhouse, and surprising details are revealed with a quick peek through the window.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.