A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

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

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

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

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

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

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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