This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

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

A lonely cemetery holds the history of a gold mining town turned ghost town.

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

An ideal location for plane spotting in British Columbia.

A collection of Inukshuks built and left by several hikers.

Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.

This enormous photomural pays homage to Vancouver's infamous history of public activism.

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

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

As you overlook the Howe Sound and the town of Squamish, your breath will be taken away by its beauty or the stairs... probably all the stairs.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

A hat for every occasion can be found in this British Columbia haunt.

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

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

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