Places Added by Megan Roberts

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

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

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

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

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

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

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

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

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

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

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

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

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

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