With colorful indoor and outdoor displays to explore, the Montreal Botanical Gardens are a must-see for families. Start your tour inside the greenhouses, where Venus Fly Traps and Pitcher Plants lunch on unfortunate flies and other bugs. In the desert section, you’ll spot tall saguaro, round golden barrel cacti and intriguing flowers like spiral begonias. At the Courtyard of the Senses, kids like smelling the fruity citronella and pleasant English lavender, touching the velvety glory bush and rubbing their hands along the sticky gum cistus. Then, it’s off to the Insectarium to find tarantulas, scorpions and bees flying in and out of tubes as they collect pollen for their hive. At the gift shop, you can try barbecued mealworms, which I overheard described by the man in front of me: “Tastes like pretzels, but I wouldn’t want to eat the whole bag.”