Built as the home for 2800 athletes during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, this glassy waterfront development became the city's newest neighborhood once the sporting-types went home. It's taken a while to make the area feel like a community, but shops and restaurants – plus some cool public art – have helped. Worth a look on your seawall stroll.
Don't forget to photograph the gigantic bird sculptures – preferably with the mountains behind them. And keep an eye on the hulking, red-sided Salt Building in the middle of the plaza: at time of writing, what promises to be Vancouver's largest craft-beer pub was close to opening in this building.
