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• Pike Place Market has it all, from fresh vegetables to flying fish

• Discovery Park is Seattle au naturel

• Japanese Garden at Washington Park Arboretum: a world apart

• Seattle Central Library's dazzling design is one for the books

• Seattle Center: always fun and always fair

• Cal Anderson Park is Seattle's true backyard

• Ye Olde Curiosity Shop: where Seattle gets weird

• Olympic Sculpture Park connects art to earth and city to ocean

• The Space Needle is where Seattle comes to a point

Seattle Center Monorail darts through history

Seattle Center Monorail darts through history
There are at least a dozen ways to get from lower Queen Anne to downtown Seattle, but none as enjoyable as a ride on this World's Fair souvenir.

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Archie McPhee gives weirdness a good name

Archie McPhee gives weirdness a good name
If you don't think you need a yodeling pickle or a Jane Austen action figure, you haven't been to Seattle's most offbeat shop.

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Garage is where the good times roll

Garage is where the good times roll
Whether your game is bowling or billiards, this onetime Plymouth automobile dealership has what you want — and lots of it.

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Chittenden Locks: where a rising tide lifts all boats

Chittenden Locks: where a rising tide lifts all boats
Watching fishing and pleasure boats pass through the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks -- rising and falling, depending on which way they're headed -- is an unexpectedly fascinating way to spend an afternoon.

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EMP/SFM brings together hard rock and weird science

EMP/SFM brings together hard rock and weird science
Two very different pop culture museums — Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum — share one roof and one admission. Somehow, the marriage works.

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Woodland Park Zoo offers acres of wild fun

Woodland Park Zoo offers acres of wild fun
Seattle's 92-acre zoological preserve is home to more than a thousand animals, all residing in immersive natural environments.

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Gas Works Park makes decay look good

Gas Works Park makes decay look good
It takes a city as eccentric as Seattle to take an abandoned 20-acre coal-processing facility, plant grass upon its grounds, and make one of the city's most beloved parks.

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The Seattle Aquarium is a sight to sea

The Seattle Aquarium is a sight to sea
As one would expect of a city bordered by the sea and two freshwater lakes, Seattle has a terrifically well-populated aquarium.

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Alki Beach Park: summer in Seattle

Alki Beach Park: summer in Seattle
This strip of sandy beach is popular with picnickers and rollerbladers year-round, but in summer, it practically becomes a resort town.

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The Tractor Tavern: affordable good times

The Tractor Tavern: affordable good times
The Tractor Tavern is Seattle's little Grand Ole Opry, an intimate, down-home nightspot featuring wonderful live music nearly every night of the week.

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