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Monument · Lower Queen Anne · 424 tips and reviews
Charles Edge: Everyone should go to the top of the Space Needle at least once in their life! Take a jacket and enjoy the views. Turn off your flash though!
HISTORY: Pike Place Market is home to the first Starbucks, Rachel the Pig, numerous street performers and entertainers, and the Pike Place Fish Market, which features the fish-throwing fishmongers.
Boat or Ferry · Lower Queen Anne · 46 tips and reviews
HISTORY: The 90-minute tour includes such attractions as the Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square .Then this strange vehicle plunges into Lake Union. The tour cruises past many houseboats and other lake sights
Tourist Information and Service · Ballard · 10 tips and reviews
Transitions® lenses: Built in 1911 to link the Puget Sound to the Ship Canal, these locks offer sightseers a picaresque parade of seafaring vessels. Check it out! #seemoresights
HISTORY: Smith Tower, Seattle's first skyscraper, was the brainchild of gun and typewriter manufacturing heir Burns Smith, who planned to build the tallest building outside of New York.