Along with his smaller donkey pal, he guards the museum’s exhibits and memorabilia.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

This water-locked cliff face is covered in hundreds of ancient pictographs.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

This quaint museum taps into the sweet history of the maple syrup industry.

A flying saucer has landed for good in the middle of a tiny Canadian town.

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

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

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

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

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.