By Aviva Bechky
The Seattle Times
Seattle—Tens of thousands baseball fans flooded into Seattle for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game and surrounding festivities from July 7-11.
If we had the chance, we might have told each of those visitors: “Welcome! We’re new here, too. Seattle Times producer Sarah-Mae McCullough just moved to the city, and summer intern Aviva Bechky hasn’t lived in the area since elementary school. And we’re hoping you were able to check out the city’s five best-known tourist attractions, as we just did.”
Here are our verdicts on whether they’re worth shelling out the extra cash….