Seattle, Washington
Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Gardens
A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.
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Seattle, Washington
A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.
Seattle, Washington
A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.
Seattle, Washington
One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.
Seattle, Washington
A busy cafe better known for board games than food.
Seattle, Washington
Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.
Seattle, Washington
The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.
Seattle, Washington
Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.
Seattle, Washington
A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.
Seattle, Washington
A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.
Seattle, Washington
Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.
Seattle, Washington
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.
Seattle, Washington
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
Seattle, Washington
Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.
Seattle, Washington
One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.
Seattle, Washington
An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.
Seattle, Washington
An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.
Seattle, Washington
This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Seattle, Washington
42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.
Tacoma, Washington
This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.