Places Madeleine Wants to Go

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

Always a new use for this old building.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

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

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

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

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

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

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

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.