Admittedly Canadian TV history isn't going to mean much to visitors from abroad, but the CBC Broadcasting Centre's big-box architecture, giant atrium and...
250 Front Street W
Completed in 1966, Toronto's fourth City Hall was one of the city's first modernist buildings. The then-mayor Nathan Phillips had held an international...
100 Queen Street W
Opened in 1949, this Chinatown tavern features a cast of seasoned regulars who look as though they came with the original furniture. Beery and a little...
379 Spadina Avenue
Great Canadian art hangs in all corners of Hart House - in reading rooms, restaurants, even stairwells - but this is the official gallery, and though tiny,...
Hart House
A postmodern château with a dungeon-like basement and giant bronze griffins flanking the central doorway, this public library is a fanciful piece of...
239 College Street
Slide into an 'interactive personal viewing station' and choose from more than 3,500 movies by the National Film Board (including classic documentaries and...
150 John Street
This unusual museum, housed in a converted sugar bag warehouse, was opened in 1979 and underwent a major revamp in 1996. In addition to generic exhibits on...
95 Queens Quay E
Hosted by the irrepressible stand-up comedian Jo-Anna Downey, Spirits is the funniest spot in Boyztown, though it's not officially a gay pub. It is...
642 Church Street
While Dundas Square contains some of Toronto's most important places of worship, the biggest shrine here is devoted to consumerism. The Eaton Centre opened...
1 Dundas Street W
Mies van der Rohe's late modernist masterpiece is a close cousin to his famous Seagram Building in New York, but the black-steel and bronze glass towers are...
66 Wellington Street W