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.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

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

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

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.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

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

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

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

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

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.