Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

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

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

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

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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.

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

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

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.