Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

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

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

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

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

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

Always a new use for this old building.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

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

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.