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

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

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

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

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

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

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

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.