Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

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

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

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

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

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

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.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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.

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