Kurt Donald Cobain was born at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington on February 20, 1967. He was born to a waitress, Wendy Elizabeth (née Fradenburg), and an automotive mechanic, Donald Leland Cobain.

Kurt would return to the hospital during homeless periods in his teenage years, when he figured out the hospital staff would ignore his sleeping in the waiting room.

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A barbecue restaurant and music (mainly blues) venue, closed in December 2010. The first meeting place of Jack and Meg White. Meg White was a bartender at the restaurant at the time.

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A childhood home of Marshall Mathers. Featured on the cover of The Marshall Mathers LP. House was up for auction on eBay in December 2002.

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On November 18, 1993, Nirvana taped an acoustic performance for the tv series MTV Unplugged at Sony Music Studios in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. The session differed from other Unplugged sessions in that there were a number of covers (six total) and the band did not play their hit songs.

Guitarist Pat Smear (The Germs, Foo Fighters) and cellist Lori Goldston had been touring with the band and performed during the session. The Meat Puppets sat in as guests for three of their songs covered by Nirvana.

The taping aired on MTV in December of 1993. Cobain was found dead in April of 1994, and the Unplugged session was released as an album in November of 1994.

The building was sold in November 2007 for $44 million, and it has since been razed and replaced by luxury condos.

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This is the approximate spot where Jeff Buckley waded into the Wolf River on the night of May 29, 1997. He was in Tennessee with his band that spring to resume working on his second album My Sweetheart, the Drunk. The Wolf River can be deceptive right there between downtown Memphis and the Mud Island Peninsula right before the river intersects with the Mississippi, and so Jeff Buckley, accompanied by roadie Keith Foti, wasn't thinking of the vicious undertow caused by passing boats when he walked in wearing his clothes and boots.

He sang Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" while he swam to the middle of the river. Foti, who stayed on shore, lost sight of him after a tugboat went by, and Buckley's body wasn't discovered until June 4th near a riverboat in the Mississippi. His death was ruled an accidental drowning. He was thirty years old.

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