You know that feeling when you’re driving through a perfectly normal neighborhood and suddenly there’s an 18-foot concrete troll clutching a Volkswagen Beetle under a bridge?
Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood has turned that fever dream into a beloved landmark that’s been confusing and delighting visitors since 1990.
Look, I’m not saying Seattle is weird, but this is a city that put a massive troll under the Aurora Bridge and then made it one of their most photographed attractions.
The Fremont Troll lives beneath the north end of the Aurora Bridge at North 36th Street, and calling it “quirky” would be like calling the Pacific Ocean “damp.”…