Seattle is a city that sleeps comfortably by the Pacific Ocean. It’s known for its diverse, eclectic neighborhoods with your natural communal ecosystem being within easy reach whether you’re a posh upper middle-class pretender or a gadget toting millennial all the grandpas complain about.
The city is bustling with energy and energetic activities; which is no great wonder it was the birthplace of Grunge where such legendary acts as Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam began their early days.
Despite being a marvel of human engineering, Seattle remains one of the greenest cities within the USA surrounded by hills green and verdant whose peaks offer you vistas of ancient mountain ranges and the ocean that stretches far beyond the horizon.
Pike Place Market
Whether you’re looking for an abundance of fish food or just some sweet souvenirs to lord over your less well-travelled friends, the Pike Street Market has just about got it all. The longest running public marketplace in America is sorta like Tesco (but with all that added historical prestige), in that you can find almost anything there and you’re also likely to be fleeced by wily-eyed old war veterans.
Paramount Theatre
Seattle’s massive and majestic Paramount Theatre was constructed during the latter half of the Roaring Twenties and has been host to literally thousands of different acts and events over the century. From premier movie screenings to concerts by world-renowned musicians, the Paramount Theatre earns its name through the sheer prestige of its history and the undeniable quality of its housing and services.
Waterfall Garden Park
This tiny corner in downtown Seattle houses what most cities simply could not boast to have: A miniature waterfall in the middle of the city. Seattle’s Waterfall Garden Park is a privately-owned park but open to the public during daylight hours. Weary travelers can elect to battle their fellow wanderers for what little chairs there are lying in the park.
The Space Needle
And of course, we come to the most identifiable part of Seattle’s skyline: The Space Needle is to Seattle what the Petronas Twin Towers are to KL, or what Crocs are to awful fashion. Visitors of the observation tower may bear witness to the vastness of the surrounding mountain ranges, trace the routes the sea-vessel take, or just meditate with the distant humming of the roads and cars from below.
The Center of Wooden-Boats
Want to role-play as a modern-day Captain Cook but don’t want to purchase an actual boat or pay rental? Why, the Center of Wooden-Boats offers some cheap to non-existent fees (depending on the days) for boat rentals! A longtime maritime (get it? Long/mari-time…) museum with sailing and boatbuilding classes as well as job skills programs. A truly communal place that doesn’t discriminate between vagrant local and loaded tourist, the Center of Wooden-Boats is for sure one for fans of boats and wood.
Gasworks Park
This former industrial plant has been transformed into a pseudo-steampunk park perfect for cosplaying and picnicking and matrimonial ceremonies for strange, misshapen Tim Burton fans that still continue watching his movies even though they’ve been trash for awhile. Note however, that access to the surrounding lake is strictly forbidden on account of there still being radioactive sludge from the plant, thus it is done to prevent more mutant aberrations from arising.
Seattle Public Library
Now this is technically the easiest locale to find, technically because there are actually 26 of them scattered around Seattle. The Seattle Public Library is actually more a library system/branch as opposed to just a single historical heritage site. Aside from offering the usual library services for all you snobby elitist pseudo fake book nerds, the Seattle Public Library also offers a myriad of free classes (depending on the branch) such as writing literature or coding videos.
Seattle Center
Finally, we come to the famous Seattle Center where tons of different arts, educational and tourist events take place. It consists of multiple sections including the International Fountain, the Mercer Arena and the Museum of Pop Culture, among others. Really, there are tons of touristy things to do here and if there’s only one place you had time to visit, this would be the place.
And as an extraneous bit of trivia, Seattle was officially nicknamed “The Emerald City” in 1982, technically making it only one of two cities in the USA with that moniker, though let’s face it, Seattle is just simply a far more memorable city name as compared to Eugene, which barely qualifies as a pet’s name.
About the author: Hailing from the mean streets of Melaka, Nicholas Sia tries to escape his past by submerging himself in music and the arts. Regularly found singing and playing for free and to little fanfare around Kuala Lumpur, Nicholas dreams of one day shedding all his unrealistic big dreams, fully assimilating into regular society and being content with being an unpretentious normie with a steady 9 to 5.
