What makes Seattle famous apart from The International
Seven main sights of Dota 2's capital
The first Starbucks
Seattle boasts lots of various cafés, and world's first Starbucks opened there in 1971. It is still operational, although now it is both a coffee shop and museum. None of 25 000 Starbucks cafés around the globe attract so much tourists!
Boeing Factory
Although Boeing HQ are located in Chicago, the aircraft giant was founded in Seattle. They still assemble 747, 767, 777 and 787 planes at the local factory and organize excursions to it all day long. Seattle also has the Museum of Flight featuring 150 aircrafts!
Bill Gate's homeland
Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft founders, were born in Seattle. Now the headquarters are situated in Redmond, 16 miles away from Seattle, and Gates lives in the Xanadu 2.0 estate on the shore of Lake Washington. The building costs more than $120,000,000.
Valve HQ
Head office of people who bring The International to us is also situated by Seattle, in the small town Bellevue. This is as unusual company because it has no boss. It’s been a thing since 1996 when Valve was founded.
Kurt Cobain place of death
There are sad stories about Seattle. It gave us Kurt Cobain and then took him away. The great singer of Nirvana committed suicide in this house in Seattle.
Gum wall
Seattle has a chewing gum wall called Market Theater Gum Wall. There’s nothing special about it, it’s just a wall covered with spit gum up to several centimeters in width. Once the wall was cleared of the gum in order to slow down brick erosion from sugar. But then they allowed to stick the gum again!
Lenin monument
There's a Vladimir Ilyich monument in Seattle as well! It was moved from Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution. The monument was bought for $13,000 by the English teacher Lewis Carpenter. Now Carpenters are trying to sell the Lenin for a couple hundred thousand dollars.
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