Always a new use for this old building.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

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

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

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

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

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

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

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

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.

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

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.