Architectural Oddities in British Columbia

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

This egg-shaped treehouse was inspired by "sport sleeping."

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

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

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

Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.

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