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The geodesic dome on False Creek: two floors of touch-everything exhibits, an OMNIMAX theatre, and a live demo where something gets set on fire on purpose.

Watch your gin being made through a glass wall, then drink it in a guided flight while rain hammers the warehouse roof.

A Kitsilano tea bar on West 4th that pours rare single-origin leaves like a wine flight, one steep at a time.

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vanier Park swaps Vancouver's grey ceiling for a projected galaxy, reclined seats included.

Feet dangling over a 20 metre dome screen at Canada Place, you sweep from the Rockies to the aurora with wind, mist and pine scent timed to the turns.

Burnaby's highest rated spa by a distance, 4.9 across roughly 850 reviews, five minutes on foot from Metrotown station.

A 4.9 rated Thai spa on Quayside Drive, ten steps from the Fraser and open until eight, seven days.

Canada's largest aquarium has jellyfish walls, sea otters and a 4D theatre designed specifically to make your date grab your arm.

Steveston's quietly famous little spa, voted best in Richmond seventeen years running, doing organic facials and Thai aromatherapy massage a block off the boardwalk.

Rain-day grazing at Granville Island: warm cinnamon buns, stinky cheese, mini donuts, and a window seat watching False Creek get rained on.

Vancouver's film-nerd church since 1972: 153 seats, restored classics, international arthouse, and absolutely zero franchise sequels.

Kitsilano's 1935 Art Deco cinema, lovingly saved from oblivion, now pours drinks and screens everything from indie films to live comedy.

50-year-old floor-to-ceiling used-book chaos on Pender, where you split up, get a little lost, and reunite clutching something weird under ten dollars.

Vancouver's answer to the Vegas Sphere: a 360 dome at the Space Centre where Pink Floyd, blue whales and the cosmos wrap the entire ceiling in 10K and Dolby Atmos, watched flat on your back from a reclining seat.