Places Kanashii Wants to Go

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

A small part of the local arts scene, this “little free cinema” is part homage to the past, part interactive experience.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

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

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

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

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

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

Definitely not a clown bar.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.