Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

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

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

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

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

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

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.