An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

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

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

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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

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

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

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

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

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.