The "birthplace of insulin," where Sir Frederick Banting realized the hormone could save the lives of Type 1 diabetics.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

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

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

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

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.

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

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

These centuries old gardens have been restored to their 17th century condition.

Some wattle-and-daub, a Moorish mural, a glacial erratic, and a Giant named Gilbert.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.