Get Tiny at Miniature World

A woolly mammoth, a walkable old BC town you can actually wander through, and a First Peoples gallery that'll stop you cold.

A coal baron built a 39-room sandstone castle, died before moving in, and accidentally created Victoria's best self-guided date.

A candlelit, scented journey through the afterlife with 250 real ancient artifacts, at Victoria's Royal BC Museum.

Hold a tarantula at this tiny downtown menagerie of 50 species and discover exactly how brave your date actually is.

A 1890s Fernwood church turned theatre so intimate the actors skip the mics, and the pubs are right outside.

Victoria's 1913 grand hall still fits 1,400 seats under an ornate ceiling and a wildly varied bill worth dressing for.

Seven galleries, an 1889 mansion, twenty thousand works, and a Japanese garden with a real Shinto shrine waiting out back.

A genuine 1908 castle with free Italian, Japanese and rose gardens, peacocks, and a film resume that includes Professor X's mansion.

Emily Carr's 1864 yellow Italianate childhood home in James Bay, tours by donation, and Dallas Road is right down the street.

Eighty-plus years of volunteer theatre in a 175-seat Rockland coach house, plus a gallery, a bar, and absolutely no parking.

Canada's narrowest street, three feet wide at points, once a gambling den, now vintage records and ice cream.

Quirky black-box shows tucked through Victoria's brick-lined Old Town, cheap enough to gamble on two and compare over late drinks.

A 225-seat restored 1940s movie palace doing Chekhov like it's urgent, which it turns out, it is.

Thirty to forty-five minutes of model ships, BC coast history, and genuinely enthusiastic staff at Nootka Court, for very little money.