Places Robert Pakko Wants to Go

Locals transformed this Canadian evergreen into a secret hangout with spectacular views of Vancouver's skyline.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

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

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

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

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

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

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

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

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

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

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

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

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

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

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.