A.V. Club Pop Pilgrims: Seattle - Kurt Cobain Park

Are you a bad person for wanting to see where Kurt Cobain died? And not just died, but violently took his own life after a long, sad battle with depression and drug addiction? Short answer: No. Longer answer: No, as long as you don't trespass or misbehave. The house at 171 Lake Washington Blvd. East—more specifically, the benches in park next to it—is all Nirvana fans have. Cobain has no grave and, until April of this year, no memorial. (His hometown of Aberdeen, Washington, erected a statue in his honor by the famous Young Street Bridge.) After Cobain's suicide in early April of 1994, fans flocked to Viretta Park, and 17 years later, they still do by the thousands every year. Even Google Maps calls it "Kurt Cobain Park."

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• park
• nirvana
• kurt
• cobain
• pop
• pilgrims
• a.v.
• club
• seattle
• washington
• grunge
• death
• viretta
• house

[quietthomas]

Amazing how you managed to include something about Kurt Cobain in this car ad.

[Ibakecookiess]

@NotRelatedToBob "we're not JUST tourists," they know they're tourists :)

[grungefix]

He don't know Kurt only his closest friends and family do. Just wish he had the one person who could make him stop. He struggled a long hard battle. May he rest in peace. :'(

[XxKuRoTsUbAsAxX]

@ColdShoulderMedia As a purist, the content of these videos don't bother me as they're actually quite interesting. It's just that they belong in a different channel. Subscribers to The Onion expect to view the satirical wit that you've sadly seem to have grown tired of, not this.

[ColdShoulderMedia]

I love everything the AV club does, even this.

Don't mind the onion purists. The onion gets old, this doesn't.

[Vmt16]

@redchango The AV club is their only non-satire section. Its good but I wish it was satire, it's so much more fun.

[redchango]

This is totally un-Onionlike! It seems like it's a genuine piece. If so - good job! This is a truly heartfelt and informative piece of journalism.  Now get back to creating videos that make people laugh!

[colintupper]

make your own channel!!!!! I want to just watch the AV club

[mysterycity]

He had such a real talent; he could connect to people in a way that is so rare. This whole generation of disenchanted youth. He was one of the many who were failed by the American system of corporate dominance and shitty educational institutions. Well. That sucks. Beautiful home, beautiful Pacific Northwest.

[mrguycrap]

Is This going to have a continuation?

It better have

[VladimirFrogslayer]

I don't know if this is real or not, but if it is, much respect to all of this. Too bad I wasn't alive to see Nirvana in concert. I just missed being old enough to see them by a few years.

[RunAndCoke]

@NotRelatedToBob Pilgrimages are defined as "voyages to seek cultural or spiritual affinity" So yes. It is a pilgrimage.