This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

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

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

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

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

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

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

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

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Cross the Continental Divide through an old railroad tunnel, and ride back to the top on a shuttle.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.