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

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

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

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

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

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

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

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

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

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.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

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

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

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

One of the best examples of the modernist movement in Madrid.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.