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8. Amazon

The Seattle metro area is the birthplace of business giants Boeing, Microsoft, Costco, Nordstrom … and Amazon, of course. Anyone passing by can pick up a free banana at the online retailer’s South Lake Union headquarters, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays. The public is also invited to visit the Amazon Spheres (seattlespheres.com) the first and third Saturdays of each month, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. You’ll need to reserve free tickets online. In addition to meeting spaces and a doughnut shop, the globe-shaped greenhouses are home to more than 40,000 gorgeous plants from the cloud forest regions of more than 30 countries.

9. Grunge

Seattle was the center of the ’90s grunge scene: Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam. Head to the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP; mopop.org) if you want to see memorabilia. Go to 4230 Leary Way N.W. in Ballard if you want to see the now-shuttered studio Reciprocal Recording, where Nirvana recorded a demo. Eddie Vedder still lives in West Seattle; you might spot him out and about in Lincoln Park. Nirvana fans gather next to Kurt Cobain’s house on the edge of Lake Washington every year on the anniversary of his death, April 8. Two benches at Viretta Park, next to Cobain’s house, serve as an unofficial memorial.

10. Dale Chihuly

There’s an entire museum dedicated to the Pacific Northwest’s famous eye-patched glassblower right under the Space Needle. The Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum (chihulygardenandglass.com) is truly beautiful, if a little pricy. We enjoy art on a budget, and there’s no better place for that than the Olympic Sculpture Park (seattleartmuseum.org) on the Seattle Waterfront. Worldclass art with a view of the Olympic Mountains, open daily dawn to dusk — and entirely free. Admission is also free at the Frye Art Museum (fryemuseum.org) on First Hill, a jewel box of a museum that hosts avant-garde shows.

For free tickets to a whole slew of art museums, history museums and cultural museums, all you need is a library card. The Seattle Public Library’s Museum Pass (spl.org) offers free tickets to the Henry Art Gallery, the Seattle Art Museum, the National Nordic Museum, MoPOP, MOHAI and others. All for the patron-friendly price of $0. ■ wwmedgroup.com/parent-map

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