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

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

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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

Always a new use for this old building.

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

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

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.