The Slow Motion Campus Tour is a (perhaps never-ending) series of geocaching events at various noteworthy places on the University of Washington Campus. On the Day of the Dead, event #4 in the Slo-Mo Campus Tour takes us to the Medicinal Herb Garden. You might think this is a tranquil spot untouched by the next world. But then there are those 2 monkeys...
The story is the monkeys are supposed to be guardians of the garden - they likely represent Hanuman, a Hindu god, and see and hear all evil, or something. But to today's eyes, they just look creepy.
The original wooden monkeys were gilded, which didn't last long, and they ended up rotted in the 1960s and were replaced. For a while they were repeatedly vandalized, but they've been mostly unmolested for a while. The current monkeys are cement, I believe. An old article is available here.
Oh, yes, and there's a medicinal herb garden. It used to be much bigger, but the pharmaceutical industry has moved away from herbs and funding dried up and now it's mostly just a nice spot to look at medicinal plants of all sorts.
Classes will be in session, so I suggest not driving. There's a bus stop just east on Stevens Way, or take Link to the U District or Husky Stadium stations and wander over.