This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

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

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

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

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.

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.

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

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.