This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

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

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

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

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

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

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

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

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.