This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

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

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

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

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

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

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

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

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

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

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.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

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

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

This Annapolis home was built by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

The Decoy Capital of the World.