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The Bill Reid Gallery on Hornby Street in downtown Vancouver is devoted to the Haida artist Bill Reid (1920–1998) and to contemporary Indigenous art of the Northwest Coast. Its permanent collection includes his 8.5-metre bronze frieze Mythic Messengers, carvings, masks and gold and silver jewellery, beside changing exhibitions.

The Bloedel Conservatory is a domed conservatory and aviary at the top of Queen Elizabeth Park, the highest point in the City of Vancouver. Opened in 1969 as a centennial project funded by the Bloedel Foundation, its triodetic dome holds around 500 species of tropical and subtropical plants, koi and more than 200 free-flying birds, among them parrots and macaws.

The Vancouver Art Gallery is an art museum on Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, founded in 1931. Since 1983 it has occupied the former provincial courthouse designed by Francis Rattenbury, a National Historic Site. Its collection of about 12,000 works covers art from British Columbia, including a large group of paintings by Emily Carr, and from around the world.

Queen Elizabeth Park covers 52 hectares on Little Mountain, about 125 metres above sea level, on the site of early 20th-century basalt quarries. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth dedicated it in 1939; the old quarry became a sunken garden, and the Bloedel Conservatory dome of 1969 holds tropical plants and birds.

The Vancouver Aquarium is a public aquarium in Stanley Park, opened in 1956. Its galleries show sea life of the Pacific coast of British Columbia beside tropical and Amazon habitats, with fish, jellyfish, sea otters and sea lions. It also runs marine research, education and the rescue of injured marine mammals. Bill Reid's bronze killer whale stands at the entrance.

Petco Park is the baseball park of the San Diego Padres in the East Village of Downtown San Diego, opened in 2004. It holds about 40,000 spectators and incorporates the 1909 brick building of the Western Metal Supply Company in its left-field corner. Visitors come for games, concerts and guided tours of the ballpark.

Granville Island is a former industrial peninsula on False Creek, beneath the south end of the Granville Street Bridge, built up on reclaimed land from 1915. Since 1979 it has been home to the Granville Island Public Market in an old factory hall, and today it also has artists' studios, theatres, a marina and restaurants.

Stanley Park is a 405-hectare forest park on the northwestern half of Vancouver's downtown peninsula, opened in 1888 and named after Lord Stanley, then Governor General. An 8.8-kilometre seawall runs around its shore, and inside are forest trails, beaches, the Brockton Point totem poles and lighthouse, and the Vancouver Aquarium.

Birch Aquarium at Scripps is the public aquarium of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, on a hillside in La Jolla above the Pacific. Opened at this site in 1992, it has more than 60 habitats with fish and invertebrates of the Pacific, a two-storey kelp forest tank, a seahorse gallery and exhibits on ocean and climate science.

VanDusen Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in Vancouver's Shaughnessy neighbourhood, laid out on part of the former Shaughnessy Golf Course and opened in 1975. It is named after the lumberman W. J. VanDusen and run by the Park Board with the Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association. Its grounds hold lakes, plant collections from around the world and a hedge maze.

The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, near Anaheim, opened in 1990 and joined the National Archives' system of presidential libraries in 2007. Its galleries cover Nixon's life and presidency, including Watergate; the grounds hold the farmhouse where he was born in 1913, the graves of Richard and Pat Nixon and a Marine One helicopter.

The Maritime Museum of San Diego, founded in 1948, keeps a fleet of historic ships on the North Embarcadero. Visitors board the Star of India of 1863, the oldest ship still sailing regularly, the steam ferry Berkeley of 1898, the steam yacht Medea, a Soviet B-39 submarine and the replica galleon San Salvador.

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is an astronomy museum in Vanier Park that opened on 28 October 1968 under the conical roof it shares with the Museum of Vancouver. Its Planetarium Star Theatre shows 360-degree dome films about the solar system and the universe, and the centre adds live science demonstrations and an interactive gallery.

The Museum of Vancouver is the city's civic history museum, founded in 1894 and housed in Vanier Park in a round building with a conical roof that it shares with the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. Its galleries follow Vancouver through the 20th century, decade by decade, beside Indigenous belongings and changing exhibitions.

The Whaley House in Old Town San Diego is a two-storey Greek Revival brick house built in 1857 by the merchant Thomas Whaley, one of the oldest brick buildings in Southern California. Besides being the family home, it housed a general store, the county courthouse and a theatre, and it is now a museum furnished in the style of the 1850s to 1880s.

The Vancouver Maritime Museum in Vanier Park opened in 1959 and tells the maritime history of Vancouver and the Canadian Arctic. Its A-frame building was raised around the St. Roch, an RCMP schooner built in 1928 that sailed the Northwest Passage in both directions. Galleries show ship models, maritime art and a children's discovery centre.

The San Diego–Coronado Bridge crosses San Diego Bay between Barrio Logan and the city of Coronado in a long curve 3.4 kilometres in length. Opened in 1969, its blue steel girders rise to about 61 metres above the water so that Navy ships can pass beneath. It carries cars only and is seen from the waterfront, Coronado's Ferry Landing and Chicano Park.

Old Town San Diego State Historic Park preserves the core of the town from the Mexican and early American periods, between about 1821 and 1872, below the hill where the Spanish presidio stood. Around a central plaza stand restored and reconstructed adobe and wooden buildings, such as the Casa de Estudillo of 1827, with small museums, shops and restaurants.

The USS Midway Museum is the aircraft carrier USS Midway, moored at Navy Pier on the San Diego waterfront since 2004. Commissioned in 1945, the ship served for 47 years, the longest of any US aircraft carrier in the 20th century, ending with the Gulf War. Visitors explore the flight deck, hangar deck, bridge and crew quarters and around 30 restored aircraft.

The Britannia Mine Museum stands in Britannia Beach on Howe Sound, about 55 km north of Vancouver, at a copper mine that was the largest in the British Empire in the 1920s and 1930s. Visitors ride a train into a haulage tunnel driven in 1914, see a show in the 20-storey Mill No. 3, a National Historic Site, and try gold panning.