A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.