Things To Do
Space Needle
The Space Needle is an observation tower and designated a Seattle landmark. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew more than 2.3 million visitors. You'll see the outside of the Space Needle at our wedding-- but you have to see the Seattle views from up here!
Pike Place Market
Pike Place Market is a public market and is one of the older continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States! Here you'll see fishmongers, crafts, restaurants, and more. Pike Place Market is Seattle's most popular tourist destination, with more than 20 million annual visitors. Check our favorites: Pike Place Chowder, Piroshky Piroshky, and Oriental Mart!
Olympic Sculpture Park
Olympic Sculpture Park, created and operated by the Seattle Art Museum, is a public park with modern and contemporary sculpture. The park consists of a 9-acre outdoor sculpture museum, an indoor pavilion, and a beach on Puget Sound
Washington Park Arboretum
Washington Park is a public park in Seattle, Washington, United States, most of which is taken up by the Washington Park Arboretum, a joint project of the University of Washington, the Seattle Parks and Recreation, and the nonprofit Arboretum Foundation. We love the giant Sequioa, the Japanese garden, and the waterfront trail!
Gas Works Park
Gas Works Park contains remnants of the sole remaining coal gasification plant in the United States. The park is on the National Historic Registry-- but most people come for the beautiful skyline and water view!
Ballard Locks Fish Ladder
The Ballard Locks is a complex of locks at the west end of Salmon Bay, carryingmore boat traffic than any other lock in the U.S., and the locks, along with the fish ladder and the surrounding Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Gardens, attract more than one million visitors annually, making it one of Seattle's top tourist attractions.
Museum of Pop Culture
The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle features a range of pop culture exhibits, including the Science Fiction + Fantasy Hall of Fame with film and TV props like the Alien jacket and the Iron Man helmet; Sound Lab, which explores music; and exhibits on video games, fashion, and art. In November, the special rotating exhibit is Beats + Rhymes: A Collective Narrative of Hip-Hop.
Pacific Science Center
The Pacific Science Center in Seattle features exhibits such as the Tropical Butterfly House, Maker & Innovation Lab, Brainy Bodies, Bodyworks, Pollinator Path, and Science on a Sphere. The museum also hosts Planetarium shows and daytime and evening laser shows within its Laser Dome.
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
The museum houses more than 16 million artifacts and specimens! Exhibits span biology, arts and culture, paleontology, and archaeology. In November the special exhbit will be "Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving."
Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)
MOHAI's expansive collection of artifacts, images, archival materials, and oral histories totals over 6.5 million items. The museum's keynote exhibits include: Boeing's first commercial plane, the 1919 Boeing B-1; the Petticoat Flag, a U.S. flag sewn by women during the 1856 Battle of Seattle; and the Rainier Brewing Company's 12-foot tall neon "R" sign. In November, the special exhibit will be "Riding Together: 135 Years of Cycling in Seattle."
Seattle Art Museum
SAM Gallery is the Seattle Art Museum's art sales and rental gallery, offering contemporary original works from Northwest artists. The gallery has hundreds of works including paintings, drawings, mixed-media works, limited-edition prints, and photographs. We're personally pretty excited about the FriendsWithYou: Little Cloud Sky rotating exhibit.
Seattle Pinball Museum
Explore a collection of pinball machines at the Seattle Pinball Museum-- you can play on them too!