These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

Canada’s infamous maximum-security prison, now open for guided tours with former guards.

A unique subway station where pillars evoke ancient civilizations.

This sculpture was made in 1973 for the city's 300th-anniversary celebrations and was largely considered an eyesore at the time.

This observation tower is a longstanding, 1960s landmark in the Thousand Islands region of Canada.

Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

This giant roadside fruit is home to an array of apple-based treats.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

This 12-seat movie theater is the smallest in the world.

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.