This unique library spans a mighty river.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Slip in a slide while waiting for the ferry.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

This landmark vessel dry-berthed in Tacoma's harbor served in emergencies and ceremonies for more than 50 years.

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

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

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 statue honors Marvin Klegman, a heroic child who died while saving another boy's life in a 1949 earthquake, and shares his long untold story.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

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

This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

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

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

Three hangars filled with meticulously restored aircraft and armored vehicles.

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

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.