Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

This landmark vessel dry-berthed in Tacoma's harbor served in emergencies and ceremonies for more than 50 years.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

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

Always a new use for this old building.