WHETHER YOU HAIL FROM beer-soaked Ballard, bourgy, waterfront Kirkland, or counterculture Capitol Hill, Seattle is home. A wet, moody, somewhat angsty, but very beautiful home that we all adore. I struck out to capture a few sights around our rainy, eccentric city that only locals would know of just from a glance.

1

Piroshky Piroshky

Photo: The long, snaking line at Piroshky Piroshky no matter what the time or weather is.

2

Post Alley

Photo: The hidden alley. Will you choose Pink Door or Kells?

3

Waterfall Garden

Photo: This oasis in the middle of downtown's chaos,

4

Fremont Troll

Photo: Seattle's most popular troll.

5

Fremont's Lenin

6

Pike Place Alcove

7

Pioneer Square Street Art

Photo: The Clink's abstract street art.

8

Seattle Art Museum

Photo: The giant, moving ax man at the SAM.

9

Totems Watching Over

10

The Wall. Obviously