Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

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

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

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

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

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

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

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

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A winding stairway to a secluded beach in a residential neighborhood.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.