This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

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

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

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

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

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

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

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

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.