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Seattle has fueled the hopes, dreams, and imaginations of countless individuals throughout its history. Their energy, ideas, and inventions have influenced the city’s skyline, the evolution of air travel, the music and art worlds, and even the very coffee we drink. They are the reason Seattle is gifted with so many unusual, offbeat, and truly compelling places for explorers to discover and enjoy, from a coin-operated attraction filled with enormous shoes, the world’s greenest commercial building, and urban old growth forests, to a haunted staircase and museums dedicated to pinball, dialysis machines, and rubber chickens.
\n111 Places in Seattle That You Must Not Miss <\/em><\/strong>invites and inspires locals and visitors alike to seek out the Emerald City’s hidden treasures, overlooked gems, and charming curiosities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fuelled by caffeine and powered by rain, Seattle is chock full of the odd, the unusual and the endearing. This book will lead you to its treasures. Revised and updated edition.
Acacia Memorial Park
\nGrand mausoleum with acres of stained glass | 10
\nAerocar
\nThis cute car could fly above traffic | 12
\nArctic Club Hotel
\nA Gold Rush club left this gem behind | 14
\nArt at the Airport
\nSEA’s museum-quality collection | 16
\nThe Arthur Foss
\nThe oldest wooden tugboat was a movie star | 18
\nBakke Coffee Museum
\nPerky shrine to machines that make coffee | 20
\nBallard Locks
\nEngineering marvel, fish ladder, botanical garden | 22
\nBallyhoo Curiosity Shop
\nHead here for taxidermy possum butts | 24
\nBoeing Field
\nMeasure the history and wonder of flight | 26
\nBoeing’s First Flight
\nThe B&W Bluebill flew from here in 1916 | 28
\nCapitol Hill Wishing Tree
\nLeaves of wishes left by passersby | 30
\nCenter for Wooden Boats
\nRow, row, row a boat or go for a free Sunday sail | 32
\nChihuly’s Odd Collections
\nColorful, curated, and quite kitschy | 34
\nCollege Inn Pub
\nHoward haunts a historic basement pub | 36
\nColman Pool
\nSwim in a saltwater pool with Puget Sound views | 38
\nConnections Museum
\nThe history of hookups and hang-ups | 40
\nDialysis Museum
\nChronicling the kidney failure fight | 42
\nDino and Dora
\nFremont’s adorable, adopted, ivy apatosauruses | 44
\nDunn Gardens
\nWhen the Olmsted Brothers went west | 46
\nDuwamish Tribal Longhouse
\nAn ancestral site of Seattle’s First People | 48
\nEasy Street Records
\nMusic, meals, cocktails, and more | 50
\nThe Edgewater Hotel
\nThe Beatles slept here, and so can you | 52
\nEdith Macefield’s House
\nSeattle’s famous holdout house | 54
\nElliott Bay Marina Dock Six
\nFree boat ride to a hidden, million-dollar view | 56
\nEmerald City Trapeze Arts
\nFly, get fit, join the circus for a little bit | 58
\nExclusion Memorial
\nFirst Japanese Americans exiled to camps | 60
\nFair Isle Brewing
\nCoffee shmoffee – drink the beer | 62
\nFantagraphics
\nVisual storytelling at its finest | 64
\nFareStart Restaurant
\nHelp the community by eating great food | 66
\nFast Penny Spirits
\nAn amaro distillery in a shipyard | 68
\nFilson Flagship Store
\nRugged gear made here, and a meat-vending machine | 70
\nFirst Gas Station
\nRoadside plaque honors a new way to fuel cars | 72
\nFishermen’s Memorial
\nHonoring those lost at sea | 74
\nFormer Ford Factory
\nModel Ts moved along a multi-story assembly line | 76
\nGeocaching Headquarters
\nMecca for modern treasure hunters | 78
\nGeorgetown Steam Plant
\nEngineering marvel and electrical time machine | 80
\nGeorgetown Trailer Park Mall
\nA hip place to shop, snack, or get hitched | 82
\nGessner Mansion
\nA gambler’s haunted home | 84
\nGiant Shoes Peep Show
\nFootwear to fit giants | 86
\nGrand Illusion
\nEclectic films reel out in a quirky space | 88
\nGranite Curling Club
\nNot just shuffleboard on ice | 90
\nGreat Wheel
\nGreat spot for a spin or a proposal | 92
\nGreenest Office Building
\nSix floors of eco-goodness and sustainability | 94
\nGreen Lake Murder Site
\nEnjoy your picnic, but remember Sylvia | 96
\nGreenwood Pencil Box
\nSupplies for creativity that support good causes | 98
\nGrossology Bathrooms
\nLessons in the loos | 100
\nHat ‘n’ Boots
\nA supersized howdy for visitors to Oxbow Park | 102
\nHawaii General Store
\nA welcoming spot to find aloha and get a lei | 104
\nHot Tub Boats
\nRub-a-dub-dub, tour the lake in a tub | 106
\nHowe Street Stairs
\nSeattle’s longest staircase is quite a workout | 108
\nInternational Fountain
\nSeattle Center’s water feature has its own DJ | 110
\nIvar’s Salmon House
\nSpot the oosiks | 112
\nJimi Hendrix Gravesite
\nThe rock icon’s final resting place | 114
\nJ. P. Patches Statue
\nCelebrating Seattle’s favorite clowns | 116
\nKEXP Gathering Space
\nWatch radio, drink coffee, see a show, buy records | 118
\nKirke Park
\nResurrected, but not as planned | 120
\nKlondike Gold Rush Park
\nSeattle struck gold with miners heading north | 122
\nKOBO at Higo
\nAn homage to what came before | 124
\nKubota Garden
\nA life, a home, and a garden built and rebuilt | 126
\nKurt Cobain Benches
\nUnofficial memorial to grunge music icon | 128
\nLake View Cemetery
\nBruce and Brandon Lee’s final resting place | 130
\nLast Resort Fire Department
\nWhere to get fired up in Pioneer Square | 132
\nLawless Forge
\nHammer out a souvenir or a relationship | 134
\nMaury Island UFO Mural
\nArtwork tells the story of an odd encounter | 136
\nMetsker Maps
\nLargest retail map shop in the US | 138
\nNW African American Museum
\nCelebrating African American culture in the PNW | 140
\nOff the Rez Café
\nModern spin on Native American cuisine | 142
\nOriental Mart
\nJames Beard Award winner with a side of sass | 144
\nPacific Fishermen Shipyard
\nBounty of Ballard’s history in salvaged signs | 146
\nPanama Hotel & Tea House
\nUnclaimed baggage tells a tragic story | 148
\nParamount Theater Library
\nArchive of Seattle’s entertainment history | 150
\nPatent Tree
\nLots of winning ideas | 152
\nPilling’s Pond
\nEverything at this pond is just ducky | 154
\nThe Pinball Museum
\nPlay through the decades | 156
\nRage Industry
\nYou’re encouraged to bust stuff up | 158
\nREI Flagship Store
\nPrep for adventure and spot a time capsule | 160
\nRetired Air Raid Tower
\nA Cold War relic in the heart of Phinney Park | 162
\nRubber Chicken Museum
\nAll the wacky stuff at Archie McPhee | 164
\nScarecrow Video
\nBe kind and rewind in the 21st century | 166
\nSchmitz Preserve Park
\nOld growth in the city | 168
\nSeattle Asian Art Museum
\nHeads of divine bodies and a weeping Buddha | 170
\nSeattle Chocolate Factory
\nWhere tasting chocolate is an experience | 172
\nSeattle Meowtropolitan
\nSip a catpuccino and adopt your new best friend | 174
\nThe Seattle Room
\nA deep dive into local history | 176
\nSicks’ Stadium Site
\nHomebase to local baseball history | 178
\nSilent Reading Party
\nMum’s the word at Hotel Sorrento | 180
\nSky View Observatory
\nLocals prefer these sky-high views | 182
\nSmith Tower
\nSeattle’s first skyscraper | 184
\nSoDo Track Art
\nWorld’s longest curated mural corridor | 186
\nSouth Willow Street End
\nShoreline access for the rest of us | 188
\nSpace Needle Secrets
\nFresh views up top, retro souvenirs below | 190
\nSpice Bridge
\nTastes of the world | 192
\nThe State Hotel
\nPike Place Market on the walls | 194
\nStatue of Liberty Plaza
\nA little Lady Liberty watches over Alki Beach | 196
\nStreissguth Garden
\nLush hillside with a fairytale story | 198
\nSuzzallo Library
\nHogwarts or the University of Washington? | 200
\nTed Bundy’s Dormitory
\nA serial killer slept in McMahon Hall | 202
\nTwo Big Blondes
\nOldest, largest, plus-size resale store | 204
\nUnicorn & Narwhal
\nColorful and conjoined carnival-themed bars | 206
\nVolunteer Park Conservatory
\nHorticultural Heaven | 208
\nWaterfall Garden Park
\nPocket park marks the birthplace of UPS | 210
\nWedgwood Rock
\nGiant geological souvenir and local landmark | 212
\nWest Boston Staircase
\n19 scary steps | 214
\nWest Seattle Bridge Saga
\nA busted bridge, a replacement, and a murder | 216
\nThe Wildrose
\nOne of the last lesbian bars | 218
\nWing Luke Museum
\nThe Asian Pacific American experience | 220
\nWonderful Whirligigs
\nArtistic energy transforms electric substation | 222
\nWoodland Park Zoo
\nGorillas and why zoos now have natural settings | 224
\nWoody Guthrie’s Legacy
\nA fascist-killing guitar at MoPOP | 226
\nWorld Flight Monument
\nThe first round-the-world flight started here | 228
\nYe Olde Curiosity Shop
\nCentury-old shrine to the world’s oddest wonders | 230<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":51064,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5550],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50997","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"author-by-author-harriet-baskas","8":"author-photographs-by-cortney-kelley","9":"publisher-emons-verlag-gmbh","10":"series-111-places","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n111 Places in Seattle That You Must Not Miss - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: 111 Places in Seattle That You Must Not Miss, Pages: 240 Pages, Publish Date: 25th Oct 2024, Author: Harriet Baskas, Photographs by Cortney Kelley, ISBN: 9783740823757. Fuelled by caffeine and powered by rain, Seattle is chock full of the odd, the unusual and the endearing. This book will lead you to its treasures. Revised and updated edition.Acacia Memorial Park Grand mausoleum with acres of stained glass | 10 Aerocar This cute car could fly above traffic | 12 Arctic Club Hotel A Gold Rush club left this gem behind | 14 Art at the Airport SEA’s museum-quality collection | 16 The Arthur Foss The oldest wooden tugboat was a movie star | 18 Bakke Coffee Museum Perky shrine to machines that make coffee | 20 Ballard Locks Engineering marvel, fish ladder, botanical garden | 22 Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop Head here for taxidermy possum butts | 24 Boeing Field Measure the history and wonder of flight | 26 Boeing’s First Flight The B&W Bluebill flew from here in 1916 | 28 Capitol Hill Wishing Tree Leaves of wishes left by passersby | 30 Center for Wooden Boats Row, row, row a boat or go for a free Sunday sail | 32 Chihuly’s Odd Collections Colorful, curated, and quite kitschy | 34 College Inn Pub Howard haunts a historic basement pub | 36 Colman Pool Swim in a saltwater pool with Puget Sound views | 38 Connections Museum The history of hookups and hang-ups | 40 Dialysis Museum Chronicling the kidney failure fight | 42 Dino and Dora Fremont’s adorable, adopted, ivy apatosauruses | 44 Dunn Gardens When the Olmsted Brothers went west | 46 Duwamish Tribal Longhouse An ancestral site of Seattle’s First People | 48 Easy Street Records Music, meals, cocktails, and more | 50 The Edgewater Hotel The Beatles slept here, and so can you | 52 Edith Macefield’s House Seattle’s famous holdout house | 54 Elliott Bay Marina Dock Six Free boat ride to a hidden, million-dollar view | 56 Emerald City Trapeze Arts Fly, get fit, join the circus for a little bit | 58 Exclusion Memorial First Japanese Americans exiled to camps | 60 Fair Isle Brewing Coffee shmoffee – drink the beer | 62 Fantagraphics Visual storytelling at its finest | 64 FareStart Restaurant Help the community by eating great food | 66 Fast Penny Spirits An amaro distillery in a shipyard | 68 Filson Flagship Store Rugged gear made here, and a meat-vending machine | 70 First Gas Station Roadside plaque honors a new way to fuel cars | 72 Fishermen’s Memorial Honoring those lost at sea | 74 Former Ford Factory Model Ts moved along a multi-story assembly line | 76 Geocaching Headquarters Mecca for modern treasure hunters | 78 Georgetown Steam Plant Engineering marvel and electrical time machine | 80 Georgetown Trailer Park Mall A hip place to shop, snack, or get hitched | 82 Gessner Mansion A gambler’s haunted home | 84 Giant Shoes Peep Show Footwear to fit giants | 86 Grand Illusion Eclectic films reel out in a quirky space | 88 Granite Curling Club Not just shuffleboard on ice | 90 Great Wheel Great spot for a spin or a proposal | 92 Greenest Office Building Six floors of eco-goodness and sustainability | 94 Green Lake Murder Site Enjoy your picnic, but remember Sylvia | 96 Greenwood Pencil Box Supplies for creativity that support good causes | 98 Grossology Bathrooms Lessons in the loos | 100 Hat ‘n’ Boots A supersized howdy for visitors to Oxbow Park | 102 Hawaii General Store A welcoming spot to find aloha and get a lei | 104 Hot Tub Boats Rub-a-dub-dub, tour the lake in a tub | 106 Howe Street Stairs Seattle’s longest staircase is quite a workout | 108 International Fountain Seattle Center’s water feature has its own DJ | 110 Ivar’s Salmon House Spot the oosiks | 112 Jimi Hendrix Gravesite The rock icon’s final resting place | 114 J. 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Patches Statue Celebrating Seattle’s favorite clowns | 116 KEXP Gathering Space Watch radio, drink coffee, see a show, buy records | 118 Kirke Park Resurrected, but not as planned | 120 Klondike Gold Rush Park Seattle struck gold with miners heading north | 122 KOBO at Higo An homage to what came before | 124 Kubota Garden A life, a home, and a garden built and rebuilt | 126 Kurt Cobain Benches Unofficial memorial to grunge music icon | 128 Lake View Cemetery Bruce and Brandon Lee’s final resting place | 130 Last Resort Fire Department Where to get fired up in Pioneer Square | 132 Lawless Forge Hammer out a souvenir or a relationship | 134 Maury Island UFO Mural Artwork tells the story of an odd encounter | 136 Metsker Maps Largest retail map shop in the US | 138 NW African American Museum Celebrating African American culture in the PNW | 140 Off the Rez Café Modern spin on Native American cuisine | 142 Oriental Mart James Beard Award winner with a side of sass | 144 Pacific Fishermen Shipyard Bounty of Ballard’s history in salvaged signs | 146 Panama Hotel & Tea House Unclaimed baggage tells a tragic story | 148 Paramount Theater Library Archive of Seattle’s entertainment history | 150 Patent Tree Lots of winning ideas | 152 Pilling’s Pond Everything at this pond is just ducky | 154 The Pinball Museum Play through the decades | 156 Rage Industry You’re encouraged to bust stuff up | 158 REI Flagship Store Prep for adventure and spot a time capsule | 160 Retired Air Raid Tower A Cold War relic in the heart of Phinney Park | 162 Rubber Chicken Museum All the wacky stuff at Archie McPhee | 164 Scarecrow Video Be kind and rewind in the 21st century | 166 Schmitz Preserve Park Old growth in the city | 168 Seattle Asian Art Museum Heads of divine bodies and a weeping Buddha | 170 Seattle Chocolate Factory Where tasting chocolate is an experience | 172 Seattle Meowtropolitan Sip a catpuccino and adopt your new best friend | 174 The Seattle Room A deep dive into local history | 176 Sicks’ Stadium Site Homebase to local baseball history | 178 Silent Reading Party Mum’s the word at Hotel Sorrento | 180 Sky View Observatory Locals prefer these sky-high views | 182 Smith Tower Seattle’s first skyscraper | 184 SoDo Track Art World’s longest curated mural corridor | 186 South Willow Street End Shoreline access for the rest of us | 188 Space Needle Secrets Fresh views up top, retro souvenirs below | 190 Spice Bridge Tastes of the world | 192 The State Hotel Pike Place Market on the walls | 194 Statue of Liberty Plaza A little Lady Liberty watches over Alki Beach | 196 Streissguth Garden Lush hillside with a fairytale story | 198 Suzzallo Library Hogwarts or the University of Washington? | 200 Ted Bundy’s Dormitory A serial killer slept in McMahon Hall | 202 Two Big Blondes Oldest, largest, plus-size resale store | 204 Unicorn & Narwhal Colorful and conjoined carnival-themed bars | 206 Volunteer Park Conservatory Horticultural Heaven | 208 Waterfall Garden Park Pocket park marks the birthplace of UPS | 210 Wedgwood Rock Giant geological souvenir and local landmark | 212 West Boston Staircase 19 scary steps | 214 West Seattle Bridge Saga A busted bridge, a replacement, and a murder | 216 The Wildrose One of the last lesbian bars | 218 Wing Luke Museum The Asian Pacific American experience | 220 Wonderful Whirligigs Artistic energy transforms electric substation | 222 Woodland Park Zoo Gorillas and why zoos now have natural settings | 224 Woody Guthrie’s Legacy A fascist-killing guitar at MoPOP | 226 World Flight Monument The first round-the-world flight started here | 228 Ye Olde Curiosity Shop Century-old shrine to the world’s oddest wonders | 230\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/111-places-in-seattle-that-you-must-not-miss-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"111 Places in Seattle That You Must Not Miss - ACC Art Books UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Title: 111 Places in Seattle That You Must Not Miss, Pages: 240 Pages, Publish Date: 25th Oct 2024, Author: Harriet Baskas, Photographs by Cortney Kelley, ISBN: 9783740823757. Fuelled by caffeine and powered by rain, Seattle is chock full of the odd, the unusual and the endearing. This book will lead you to its treasures. Revised and updated edition.Acacia Memorial Park Grand mausoleum with acres of stained glass | 10 Aerocar This cute car could fly above traffic | 12 Arctic Club Hotel A Gold Rush club left this gem behind | 14 Art at the Airport SEA’s museum-quality collection | 16 The Arthur Foss The oldest wooden tugboat was a movie star | 18 Bakke Coffee Museum Perky shrine to machines that make coffee | 20 Ballard Locks Engineering marvel, fish ladder, botanical garden | 22 Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop Head here for taxidermy possum butts | 24 Boeing Field Measure the history and wonder of flight | 26 Boeing’s First Flight The B&W Bluebill flew from here in 1916 | 28 Capitol Hill Wishing Tree Leaves of wishes left by passersby | 30 Center for Wooden Boats Row, row, row a boat or go for a free Sunday sail | 32 Chihuly’s Odd Collections Colorful, curated, and quite kitschy | 34 College Inn Pub Howard haunts a historic basement pub | 36 Colman Pool Swim in a saltwater pool with Puget Sound views | 38 Connections Museum The history of hookups and hang-ups | 40 Dialysis Museum Chronicling the kidney failure fight | 42 Dino and Dora Fremont’s adorable, adopted, ivy apatosauruses | 44 Dunn Gardens When the Olmsted Brothers went west | 46 Duwamish Tribal Longhouse An ancestral site of Seattle’s First People | 48 Easy Street Records Music, meals, cocktails, and more | 50 The Edgewater Hotel The Beatles slept here, and so can you | 52 Edith Macefield’s House Seattle’s famous holdout house | 54 Elliott Bay Marina Dock Six Free boat ride to a hidden, million-dollar view | 56 Emerald City Trapeze Arts Fly, get fit, join the circus for a little bit | 58 Exclusion Memorial First Japanese Americans exiled to camps | 60 Fair Isle Brewing Coffee shmoffee – drink the beer | 62 Fantagraphics Visual storytelling at its finest | 64 FareStart Restaurant Help the community by eating great food | 66 Fast Penny Spirits An amaro distillery in a shipyard | 68 Filson Flagship Store Rugged gear made here, and a meat-vending machine | 70 First Gas Station Roadside plaque honors a new way to fuel cars | 72 Fishermen’s Memorial Honoring those lost at sea | 74 Former Ford Factory Model Ts moved along a multi-story assembly line | 76 Geocaching Headquarters Mecca for modern treasure hunters | 78 Georgetown Steam Plant Engineering marvel and electrical time machine | 80 Georgetown Trailer Park Mall A hip place to shop, snack, or get hitched | 82 Gessner Mansion A gambler’s haunted home | 84 Giant Shoes Peep Show Footwear to fit giants | 86 Grand Illusion Eclectic films reel out in a quirky space | 88 Granite Curling Club Not just shuffleboard on ice | 90 Great Wheel Great spot for a spin or a proposal | 92 Greenest Office Building Six floors of eco-goodness and sustainability | 94 Green Lake Murder Site Enjoy your picnic, but remember Sylvia | 96 Greenwood Pencil Box Supplies for creativity that support good causes | 98 Grossology Bathrooms Lessons in the loos | 100 Hat ‘n’ Boots A supersized howdy for visitors to Oxbow Park | 102 Hawaii General Store A welcoming spot to find aloha and get a lei | 104 Hot Tub Boats Rub-a-dub-dub, tour the lake in a tub | 106 Howe Street Stairs Seattle’s longest staircase is quite a workout | 108 International Fountain Seattle Center’s water feature has its own DJ | 110 Ivar’s Salmon House Spot the oosiks | 112 Jimi Hendrix Gravesite The rock icon’s final resting place | 114 J. 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Patches Statue Celebrating Seattle’s favorite clowns | 116 KEXP Gathering Space Watch radio, drink coffee, see a show, buy records | 118 Kirke Park Resurrected, but not as planned | 120 Klondike Gold Rush Park Seattle struck gold with miners heading north | 122 KOBO at Higo An homage to what came before | 124 Kubota Garden A life, a home, and a garden built and rebuilt | 126 Kurt Cobain Benches Unofficial memorial to grunge music icon | 128 Lake View Cemetery Bruce and Brandon Lee’s final resting place | 130 Last Resort Fire Department Where to get fired up in Pioneer Square | 132 Lawless Forge Hammer out a souvenir or a relationship | 134 Maury Island UFO Mural Artwork tells the story of an odd encounter | 136 Metsker Maps Largest retail map shop in the US | 138 NW African American Museum Celebrating African American culture in the PNW | 140 Off the Rez Café Modern spin on Native American cuisine | 142 Oriental Mart James Beard Award winner with a side of sass | 144 Pacific Fishermen Shipyard Bounty of Ballard’s history in salvaged signs | 146 Panama Hotel & Tea House Unclaimed baggage tells a tragic story | 148 Paramount Theater Library Archive of Seattle’s entertainment history | 150 Patent Tree Lots of winning ideas | 152 Pilling’s Pond Everything at this pond is just ducky | 154 The Pinball Museum Play through the decades | 156 Rage Industry You’re encouraged to bust stuff up | 158 REI Flagship Store Prep for adventure and spot a time capsule | 160 Retired Air Raid Tower A Cold War relic in the heart of Phinney Park | 162 Rubber Chicken Museum All the wacky stuff at Archie McPhee | 164 Scarecrow Video Be kind and rewind in the 21st century | 166 Schmitz Preserve Park Old growth in the city | 168 Seattle Asian Art Museum Heads of divine bodies and a weeping Buddha | 170 Seattle Chocolate Factory Where tasting chocolate is an experience | 172 Seattle Meowtropolitan Sip a catpuccino and adopt your new best friend | 174 The Seattle Room A deep dive into local history | 176 Sicks’ Stadium Site Homebase to local baseball history | 178 Silent Reading Party Mum’s the word at Hotel Sorrento | 180 Sky View Observatory Locals prefer these sky-high views | 182 Smith Tower Seattle’s first skyscraper | 184 SoDo Track Art World’s longest curated mural corridor | 186 South Willow Street End Shoreline access for the rest of us | 188 Space Needle Secrets Fresh views up top, retro souvenirs below | 190 Spice Bridge Tastes of the world | 192 The State Hotel Pike Place Market on the walls | 194 Statue of Liberty Plaza A little Lady Liberty watches over Alki Beach | 196 Streissguth Garden Lush hillside with a fairytale story | 198 Suzzallo Library Hogwarts or the University of Washington? 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Revised and updated edition.Acacia Memorial Park Grand mausoleum with acres of stained glass | 10 Aerocar This cute car could fly above traffic | 12 Arctic Club Hotel A Gold Rush club left this gem behind | 14 Art at the Airport SEA’s museum-quality collection | 16 The Arthur Foss The oldest wooden tugboat was a movie star | 18 Bakke Coffee Museum Perky shrine to machines that make coffee | 20 Ballard Locks Engineering marvel, fish ladder, botanical garden | 22 Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop Head here for taxidermy possum butts | 24 Boeing Field Measure the history and wonder of flight | 26 Boeing’s First Flight The B&W Bluebill flew from here in 1916 | 28 Capitol Hill Wishing Tree Leaves of wishes left by passersby | 30 Center for Wooden Boats Row, row, row a boat or go for a free Sunday sail | 32 Chihuly’s Odd Collections Colorful, curated, and quite kitschy | 34 College Inn Pub Howard haunts a historic basement pub | 36 Colman Pool Swim in a saltwater pool with Puget Sound views | 38 Connections Museum The history of hookups and hang-ups | 40 Dialysis Museum Chronicling the kidney failure fight | 42 Dino and Dora Fremont’s adorable, adopted, ivy apatosauruses | 44 Dunn Gardens When the Olmsted Brothers went west | 46 Duwamish Tribal Longhouse An ancestral site of Seattle’s First People | 48 Easy Street Records Music, meals, cocktails, and more | 50 The Edgewater Hotel The Beatles slept here, and so can you | 52 Edith Macefield’s House Seattle’s famous holdout house | 54 Elliott Bay Marina Dock Six Free boat ride to a hidden, million-dollar view | 56 Emerald City Trapeze Arts Fly, get fit, join the circus for a little bit | 58 Exclusion Memorial First Japanese Americans exiled to camps | 60 Fair Isle Brewing Coffee shmoffee – drink the beer | 62 Fantagraphics Visual storytelling at its finest | 64 FareStart Restaurant Help the community by eating great food | 66 Fast Penny Spirits An amaro distillery in a shipyard | 68 Filson Flagship Store Rugged gear made here, and a meat-vending machine | 70 First Gas Station Roadside plaque honors a new way to fuel cars | 72 Fishermen’s Memorial Honoring those lost at sea | 74 Former Ford Factory Model Ts moved along a multi-story assembly line | 76 Geocaching Headquarters Mecca for modern treasure hunters | 78 Georgetown Steam Plant Engineering marvel and electrical time machine | 80 Georgetown Trailer Park Mall A hip place to shop, snack, or get hitched | 82 Gessner Mansion A gambler’s haunted home | 84 Giant Shoes Peep Show Footwear to fit giants | 86 Grand Illusion Eclectic films reel out in a quirky space | 88 Granite Curling Club Not just shuffleboard on ice | 90 Great Wheel Great spot for a spin or a proposal | 92 Greenest Office Building Six floors of eco-goodness and sustainability | 94 Green Lake Murder Site Enjoy your picnic, but remember Sylvia | 96 Greenwood Pencil Box Supplies for creativity that support good causes | 98 Grossology Bathrooms Lessons in the loos | 100 Hat ‘n’ Boots A supersized howdy for visitors to Oxbow Park | 102 Hawaii General Store A welcoming spot to find aloha and get a lei | 104 Hot Tub Boats Rub-a-dub-dub, tour the lake in a tub | 106 Howe Street Stairs Seattle’s longest staircase is quite a workout | 108 International Fountain Seattle Center’s water feature has its own DJ | 110 Ivar’s Salmon House Spot the oosiks | 112 Jimi Hendrix Gravesite The rock icon’s final resting place | 114 J. 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