This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

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

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

This multi-functional park is a marvel of civic engagement.

One of the best views of the city is tucked away at the top of a water tower.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

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

Tucked away in Seward Park is Seattle’s only old-growth forest.

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

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

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Always a new use for this old building.

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

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

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

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.