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

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

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.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

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

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.

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

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.