A garage-rehabilitation project with a galactic theme, Pluto's is the only remaining Phillips 66 'bat-wing'-style gas station left in Canada, although the gas these days is milkshakes and diner-style breakfasts, rather than Shell oil. Each booth is named for a planet (Mercury abuts the window) and the menu peaks with the pesto-shrimp benny accompanied by lashings of hollandaise.

Daredevils can wash their meal down with a jalapeño-flavored milkshake.


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1. Christ Church Cathedral

0.27 MILES

This early-20th-century Gothic-revival cathedral is one of Victoria's most attractive buildings. The third Anglican cathedral to be built in the city, the…

2. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

0.34 MILES

Granted, it's not the Louvre, or even Vancouver Art Gallery for that matter, but this east-of-downtown art nook does harbor one of Canada's best Emily…

3. Craigdarroch Castle

0.5 MILES

More ostentatious country mansion than fortified castle, Craigdarroch, with its turrets, stained-glass windows and palatial interior, looks like it might…

4. Victoria Bug Zoo

0.56 MILES

It’s not big, nor are its resident critters (although some of them are alarmingly colossal by insect standards); however, this diminutive indoor ‘zoo’ is…

5. Miniature World

0.58 MILES

Tucked along the side of the Fairmont Empress Hotel, this huge collection of skillfully crafted models depicting important battles, historic towns and…

6. Royal BC Museum

0.66 MILES

Arguably the finest museum in British Columbia and carrier of a ‘royal’ prefix since 1987, Victoria’s flagship sight mixes the cream of BC’s provincial…

7. Bastion Square

0.69 MILES

This square once held a jail, gallows and a brothel. Many of its scrubbed stone buildings are now restaurants, boutiques or offices. There's also a summer…

8. Parliament Buildings

0.79 MILES

This dramatically handsome confection of turrets, domes and stained glass is British Columbia's working legislature and is also open to visitors. You can…