This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

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

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

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

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

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

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

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

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

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

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.