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Or flight, the arts, history, whether you are a fan of panoramic views, has plenty to see and do, as Seattle is affectionately known, the Emerald City.

And the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges, mount Rainier, the beautiful Puget Sound, with a 360-degree panorama of the city, the view from the observation deck on a clear day is spectacular. But on a busy day you'll spend much longer waiting in line (insider tip: send one member of your party to buy tickets while you stand in line for the elevators), it only takes 43 seconds for an elevator to whisk you to the observation deck. The second in the world when it was built, it includes an observation deck at 520 feet and a revolving restaurant. The Seattle Space Needle (400 Broad St) is an icon that towers 600 feet over the city, built in the early 1960s for the 1962 World's Fair.

A fun and scenic way to get to the downtown area of Seattle, the Seattle Center also has the Monorail station. As well as rare science fiction books and film posters, is dedicated to science fiction film and television props and memorabilia, and the Science Fiction Museum (325 Fifth Avenue North), celebrates the history of music in Seattle, the Experience Music Project (325 5th Ave N). And a number of souvenir shops and eateries, as well as The Children's Museum (305 Harrison St), the Center is home to the Pacific Science Center (200 Second Ave North) with the Boeing and Eames IMAX Theaters and the Seattle Laser Dome. Home of the Seattle Supersonics, and the Key Arena (305 Harrison St), home of the Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, and McCaw Hall (321 Mercer St), the Center House Theater (305 Harrison St), including the Seattle Repertory Theatre (155 Mercer St), the site of the 1962 World's Fair and a 74-acre area encompassing a number of performing arts venues, the Space Needle is located in the Seattle Center (305 Harrison St).

As well as hear great stories about the city's colorful early residents, and the Underground Tour gives you the opportunity to see the original structures, the city was rebuilt 10-30 feet above the original city (to solve the problem of sewage runoff from the hills above), after the Great Fire of 1889. Historic tour that takes you beneath the sidewalks to the site of the original city, a humorous, pioneer Square is also the site of the Underground Tour (608 First Ave). Which was the smallest hotel on the west coast when it was built in 1909 with just eight rooms, and the Triangle Building (551 First Ave South), which tells the story of Seattle's role in the Gold Rush and even features gold panning demonstrations; klondike Gold Rush National Park (319 Second Ave South), which was the tallest building in the world outside of Manhattan when it opened in 1914; it also features Smith Tower (506 Second Ave). Sports bars and restaurants, as well as a variety of popular nightclubs, over 200 unique and independently-owned shops, more than 30 fine art galleries, and includes over 20 city blocks of red-brick buildings and Victorian-Romanesque architecture, pioneer Square (Jackson St and First Ave) is the site of the city's original settlement.

Insider tip: get there early to avoid the crowds (or just enjoy the people-watching). Or just browsing in the shops, taking the guided tour, watching the fish-flying show, you can spend hours eating your way through the market. And specialty foods plus restaurants and eateries, sweets, crafts, produce, there are also lots of shops with seafood. And the home of the very first Starbuck's, the Pike Place Market is the site of the famous fish-flying Pike Place Fish Market. The public market in Seattle since 1917, another of the famous sights is the Pike Place Market (First Street and Pike Place).

Which includes an underwater viewing area, harbor seals and fur seals, the Marine Mammals exhibit with sea otters, and the perennial favorite, a tidepool of Washington's outer coast and Seattle's inland sea life, a tank of the strangest of underwater creatures, a Pacific Coral Reef exhibit, it includes a Giant Pacific Octopus. Puget Sound and inland sea life, the Seattle Aquarium (1483 Alaskan Way - Pier 59) offers visitors a tour of Pacific Ocean.

Is a lively international hub for Asian art and cultural activities, in a jewel-like historic building in Volunteer Park, the Seattle Asian Art Museum (1400 East Prospect Street). With a view of the Olympic Mountains, the Olympic Sculpture Park (2901 Western Ave) offers a stunning array of sculpture on nine acres of free and open space alongside Elliott Bay. Exploring the connections between past and present, the Seattle Art Museum (100 University St) features a diverse collection of objects from across cultures.

A SR-71 Blackbird and F/A-18 Hornet, the official archives of the original Flying Tigers/American Volunteer Group and the American Fighter Aces, the original Air Force One presidential airplane, an Air Force F-5 supersonic fighter, highlights include a retired Concorde. As well as other flight-related artifacts, the Museum of Flight in Seattle proper (9404 E Marginal Way South) features a collection of air and spacecraft. Visitors get to see airplanes in different stages of manufacture and flight testing. Just outside Seattle (about 30 minutes north in Everett) is the popular Boeing Tour.

Interactive tour that will show you Seattle from both land and water (including the famous Sleepless in Seattle houseboats), the Ride the Ducks of Seattle tour (516 Broad St) on an amphibious World War II vehicle is a fun, for kids and kids at heart. N), . Or indulge in a Savor Seattle Food Tour (8521B Interlake Ave, enjoy a Royal Argosy Lunch Cruise (1101 Alaskan Way) on the famous Elliott Bay, take the Hop-On/Hop-Off Seattle Double Decker Tour (various locations), to get an overview of Seattle's sights.