Traffic circles rule Seattle. However, since you can't put one at every intersection sometimes you have to devise other ways to slow down neighborhood traffic. While stop signs, yield signs, traffic lights, and on and on have all proved successful throughout the country, in Seattle, we do things a little differently. Instead of your typical traffic diversionary tactics, we paint ladybugs in the middle of the street, call it art, and get the city to pay for it. Oh, yeah!

Atop the hill where Burke Street meets 49th Street in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, sits a gloriously painted ladybug smack dab in the middle of street. Painted in 2006 by locals, the design sneaks up on you out of nowhere. "Charming,"curious," and "happy-go-lucky" are but a few words that come to mind when first encountering Miss Bug, but when you see it for yourself surely you will think of a few more of your own.