A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

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

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

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

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

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

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

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

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

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

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