Architecture in British Columbia

This is an amazing but little known tile mosaic mural that used to grace the lobby of an office building in 1958, but now can only be seen from the second floor of a Shoppers Drug Mart.

This former smelter is a crumbling ruin, with the exception of its towering smokestack.

A World War II structure that has stood the test of time.

A historic ghost town still worth a visit.

This castle was once considered as an option for the Royal Family's alternate residence, but you may know it better from the 'X-Men' movie.

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

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

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

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

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

This egg-shaped treehouse was inspired by "sport sleeping."

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

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

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

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.