This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

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

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

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

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

One of the best views of the city is tucked away at the top of a water tower.