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The Quad (Seattle)

Surrounded by the liberal arts buildings, the Quad turns a wonderful shade of pink in the spring, when the Japanese cherry trees bloom

One of the biggest contemporary art galleries in Washington, The Henry shows well-known contemporary and modern artists of all visual media, as well as an annual exhibition of the UW's Master of Fine Arts students

Burke Museum

The Burke Museum is a natural history museum with lots of Northwest Indian artifacts and dinosaur

University of Washington Waterfront Activities Center

The Waterfront Activities Center rents out canoes and rowboats, with all the necessary accessories

Ravenna Park

Fans of comic artist Charles Burns might like to visit this park, the site of some of the creepier scenes in his book 'Black Hole

Lakeview Cemetery

Incorporated in 1872, Lakeview Cemetery is set on a hillside with views of Lake Union, the Cascades, Lake Washington and the Olympic Mountains

Seattle Asian Art Museum

An offshoot of downtown's Seattle Art Museum, SAAM displays a portion of the permanent collection balanced with rotating, consistently well-curated special exhibitions

Washington Park Arboretum

The Arboretum is a 230-acre park additionally serving as a botanical garden and horticultural research center, with thousands of trees and plants from temperate climates represented

Volunteer Park

Designed by John Charles Olmsted and Fredrick Law Olmsted Jr, Volunteer Park is the largest park in Capitol Hill and the site of a botanical conservatory and the Seattle Asian Art Museum

Streissguth Gardens

A small, family maintained garden located on the northwest side of Seattle's Capitol Hill, on a steep hillside

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