Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Seattle
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Seattle? These 11 are the genuinely strange ones — Cannonball Arts (Virginia Park & Leviathan), Earth Sanctuary, Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo Sculpture Park) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Seattle they'd never find on their own.
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Cannonball Arts (Virginia Park & Leviathan)
From the producers of Bumbershoot, Cannonball took over a former big-box store at 3rd & Virginia and turned i…
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Earth Sanctuary
A 72-acre nature reserve and sculpture garden on Whidbey Island laced with sacred-geometry structures scatter…
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Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo Sculpture Park)
On the road toward Mount Rainier's Longmire entrance, Dan Klennert spent years welding scrapyard junk into a…
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The Fremont Troll
An 18-foot concrete troll crouches in the gloom under the north end of the Aurora Bridge, one giant hand crus…
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The Gum Wall
A brick passage in the lower level of Pike Place Market is coated floor-to-overhead in layers of chewed gum,…
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Statue of Lenin
A 16-foot bronze of Vladimir Lenin striding forward, flames and rifles cast around his legs, stands on a Frem…
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Dick and Jane's Spot
Artists Dick Elliott and Jane Orleman have been encrusting their corner house since 1978 with thousands of re…
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Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve
A prairie southwest of Olympia is rippled with hundreds of grass-covered domes a few feet high, stretching ac…
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Bhy Kracke Park
A tiny, almost impossible-to-find park crammed into the steep southeast face of Queen Anne Hill, reached by a…
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The Wall of Death
Hidden under the University Bridge along the Burke-Gilman Trail is a surreal 1993 public artwork by Mowry Bad…
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Ape Cave Lava Tube
Formed about 2,000 years ago by lava streaming down Mount St. Helens, Ape Cave is the longest continuous lava…