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In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide (that’s me!) and Alasdair Butcher, owner of Vancouver DeTours, take you on a detailed guided tour of the oddities of their hometown, Vancouver. We show off our Vancouver-themed tattoos, tell some personal stories, and shake our heads at how bizarre our weird city really is, despite its ‘liveable’ reputation.

0:00 – Introduction to the tour
1:23 - Land Acknowledgement
1:37 - Dr Sun Yat Sen Garden and its Murderous Otter
7:25 - The Vancouver Police Museum's Coroner's Court and Morgue
11:03 - The Sam Kee Building - The World's Skinniest Commercial Building
13:58 - Save-On-Meats and Vancouver's Neon History
16:56 - The Museum of Vancouver - Smilin' Buddha Cabaret
18:47 - The Ovaltine Cafe and Hollywood North
22:43 - Blood Alley - A Long Con
26:53 - Leg-in-Boot Square - Strangely True
28:07 - Vancouver's Dismembered Feet
30:15 - The Sun Tower's Fake Copper Roof
32:54 - Dude Chilling Park
35:14 - Holy Rosary Cathedral and Acid Al Hubbard, The Johnny Appleseed of LSD
38:55 - Floating Gas Stations and McBarge
41:05 - The Marine Building's Art Deco Splendour

We start at the stunning and unique Sun Yat Sen Gardens to investigate a blood-thirsty otter, and then Jess takes you on a tour of the Vancouver Police Museum, housed in an art deco morgue. Get ready to learn more than you ever wanted to know about Errol Flynn’s genitals!

Next, we’ll measure ourselves against the world’s shallowest building, the Sam Kee Building, and utter harsh words to Pittsburgh. Jess then takes you on a deep dive into the city’s illustrious neon history at the Museum of Vancouver, Save On Meats, and the Ovaltine Café (where we have a grilled cheese and talk about the X-Files).

It's on Blood Alley, where Alasdair details the history (or lack thereof) of the name, followed by a truly macabre name origin, Leg-In-Boot Square, and the mystery of the washed up feet that plague Vancouver’s shores.

Jessica explains the long con of the Sun Tower (where her granny worked!) and visits two dudes in Dude Chilling Park, and then Ali and Jess recount the Catholic church that once preached LSD from the pulpit. Yes – church-sanctioned acid trips.

We finish with the floating gas stations and McBarge, before touring the magical Marine Building, an art deco masterpiece.

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