Confederate Mound at Oak Woods Cemetery

Oak Woods Cemetery is home to Confederate Mound, the largest Confederate burial ground in the northern United States. The Confederate soldiers interred here were imprisoned and died at Camp Douglas, a Civil War prison camp located in what is now ...

Chief Seattle Fountain/Little Crossing-Over Place

The Chief Seattle Fountain is a monument to the city’s namesake, Duwamish Chief Seeathl (also spelled Si'ahl). It is also a reminder that before this place was Seattle—and long before it was Pioneer Park Place as you see ...

King Street Station

Located at the crossroads of four important downtown neighborhoods (Commercial District, International District, Stadium District, and Pioneer Square), King Street Station has served as a hub for transportation and city development for more than 100 years. The station was constructed ...

Nathan Jackson Whale Hatchover

The Puget Sound is the natural habitat of gray whales, minke whales, and orca—or killer—whales. This hatchover—or manhole cover—design at your feet (at the northwest corner of S Main St and 1st Ave S) featuring a whale in a Tlingit ...

Seattle Ferry Terminal

The best view of Seattle isn’t from the Space Needle or Columbia Tower. The best view of Seattle is from a ferry.

Washington state has the nation’s largest ferry system. Its fleet of twenty-two ferries is a marine highway ...

State Hotel

The State Hotel, also called the Delmar Building, operated for many years as a low-budget hotel and once housed Seattle’s earliest pharmacy. It is important for its connection to Seattle’s “Skid Road” period.

Upon construction in 1891 in the ...

Elliott Bay, Waterfront Park

Famous for its rain and bordered by Elliott Bay and ringed by lakes to the north and east, water may be Seattle’s most distinguishing and celebrated characteristic. After all, Seattle’s biggest civic celebration is Seafair—a ten-week-long summer festival includes parades, ...