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An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

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.

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

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

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

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.