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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The magic's in the hole!

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

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.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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.

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

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.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

Orcas on display and in the water.