Fairview & South Granville
Architecture fans should save time for one of Vancouver's best art-deco buildings. Completed in 1936, its highlights include a soaring, Gotham-style…
Must-see attractions in British Columbia
Vancouver
Stanley Park's biggest draw is home to 9000 critters – including sharks, wolf eels and a somewhat shy octopus. There's also a small, walk-through…
Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Vancouver
This ever-intriguing gallery specializes in contemporary and often quite challenging pieces, with chin-stroking new exhibitions opening in its high…
Vancouver
A creative use for a cavernous bank building atrium, this gallery offers a varied roster of temporary exhibitions. It's mostly contemporary art and can…
Gastown & Chinatown
This unusual spot was known for decades as the Sam Kee Building until Jack Chow Insurance changed the name and spruced it up. Listed in the Guinness Book…
North Shore
Just 2km north of Capilano Suspension Bridge, this government-run fish farm works to protect coho, chinook and steelhead salmon stocks. Visit from July to…
Lower Mainland
The Kilby Historic Site is a popular lure for history-minded visitors. You'll find a museum and many reminders of the clapboard buildings that once…
Kicking Horse Pedestrian Bridge
British Columbia
Originally established as a logging town and supply station for the Canadian Pacific Railway, back when the town was simply known as ‘the Cache’, Golden…
Vancouver
Built as the home for 2800 athletes during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, this glassy waterfront development became the city's newest…
Lower Mainland
Dating from the 1860s – ancient history in BC years – but looking a bit lost among the modern hubbub, this handsome residence has gingerbread adornments,…
West Coast Railway Heritage Park
Squamish & Around
Train nuts should continue just past central Squamish to this large, mostly alfresco museum that's lined with clapboard buildings and several historic…
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Victoria
Granted, it's not the Louvre, or even Vancouver Art Gallery for that matter, but this east-of-downtown art nook does harbor one of Canada's best Emily…
Lower Mainland
This historic bank building (1905) now serves as a post office, visitor center and small museum offering a concise history of Steveston’s Japanese…
North Shore
Housed in a cute wooden heritage building, which was once a ferry terminal when transit boats plied the waters between West Van and Vancouver, this…
Victoria
This early-20th-century Gothic-revival cathedral is one of Victoria's most attractive buildings. The third Anglican cathedral to be built in the city, the…
British Columbia
For most visitors, this vividly colored lake is Yoho’s most unmissable sight. Ringed by forest and silhouetted by impressive mountains, including the…
Whistler
If you're here in summer, head to the Upper Village and the plaza in front of the Fairmont Chateau Whistler for the Whistler Farmers Market, where you can…
British Columbia
The wackiest sight on the eastern shore is without doubt Boswell’s Glass House. With a mortuarist’s sense of humor, funeral director David H Brown decided…
Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre
Vancouver Island
This small and mildly interesting interpretive center overlooks the water and illuminates the area's flora and fauna. Nip inside the shed-like facility…
Quatse Salmon Stewardship Centre
Vancouver Island
Bring your kids and they'll learn all about the salmon lifecycle at this off-the-beaten-path hatchery attraction. Besides lots of hands-on action (as well…
British Columbia
Spanning the Chilcotin and the east end of the valley, the southern portion of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park is the second-largest provincial park in BC. It…
Vancouver Island
This smashing little marine-critter attraction can be found at the entrance to the Discovery Pier, where it's repurposed the old blue shed aquarium that…
British Columbia
Tucked toward the end of the wharf, this small private gallery showcases the work of local artist Boothroyd, who's known for her whimsical almost child…
British Columbia
Named after a Nakoda word meaning ‘river,’ these are the largest set of falls anywhere on the Kicking Horse River, measuring 150m (490ft) across and 30m …
Vancouver
This main Vancouver branch of one of Canada's biggest bank chains has a huge hidden artwork on its 2nd floor. Head up the escalator just inside the…
Okanagan Valley
About 8km west of town on Hwy 3, look for Spotted Lake, a weird natural phenomenon that once would have made a kitschy roadside attraction. In the hot…
British Columbia
The history of Powell River is illuminated at this local-focused little museum near Willingdon Beach. But it's not all about logging, pioneer days and the…
Gastown & Chinatown
The city's first public library was a landmark corner building funded by US philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in the early 1900s. Now a community center…
Gastown & Chinatown
Restored to its former glory in 2014, this dramatic corner landmark across from Victory Sq is chiefly noted for its hulking, elaborately-carved stone…
Okanagan Valley
About 30km west of Keremeos, Cathedral Provincial Park is a 330-sq-km mountain wilderness that's a playground for the truly adventurous. The park offers…
Vancouver
The historic naval station located on Stanley Park's Deadman's Island (actually a peninsula) has a long history as both a First Nations' burial ground and…
Dixon Entrance Maritime Museum
Haida Gwaii
Housed in what was once the local hospital, the museum features exhibits on the history of this seafaring community, with displays on shipbuilding,…
Stone Mountain Provincial Park
Northern BC
Around 100km west of Fort Nelson, Stone Mountain Provincial Park has hiking trails with backcountry camping and a campground (campsites $20). The…
Squamish & Around
A First Nations–run salmon hatchery 20km north of Squamish that helps keep regional fish stocks up to healthy levels, visitors can wander the facilities…
Whistler
One of BC's oldest microbreweries, this Function Junction business has been making its own craft beer since 1989. Tours (at 4pm) are available as well as…
Culture Shock Interactive Gallery
Vancouver Island
This diminutive gallery shop sells contemporary First Nations crafts, T-shirts and jewelry, all made in and around BC. There's a coffee shack alongside if…
Vancouver Island
There’s plenty of history lovingly stuffed into this museum in the town’s former train station. Closely packed exhibits cover the favorite BC topics:…
British Columbia
This is the home of Columbia Brewery, creators of the mass-market Kokanee and Kootenay brands. The brewery offers tours (four to six daily) and visits to…
British Columbia
On the often-hot summer days, the beach at Paul Lake Provincial Park beckons and you may spot falcons and coyotes. There is a 20km mountain-biking loop…
British Columbia
Furniture and historical odds and ends – including mining, logging and railway artifacts that date to the town's establishment in the 1880s – line the…
