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

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

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

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

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

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

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

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

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

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

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

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

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

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

The magic's in the hole!

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.