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

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

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

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

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

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

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

This park offers a variety of sights and activities including trail rides and buffalo sightings.

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

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.