Places pacificbookworm Wants to Go

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

This small island has a dark past as a colony for Chinese lepers and a dropoff point for bootleggers.

The remains of Canada's earliest Chinese pioneers are interred along this picturesque point.

This stately Victorian-era burial ground overlooking the Pacific Ocean is home to the graves of some of British Columbia's most famous figures.

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

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

The ruins of this temple were later chosen by Pope Celestine V to found an abbey and a hermitage.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.