Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

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

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

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

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

Always a new use for this old building.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

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

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

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

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

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

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

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

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