Places joparkman Wants to Go

The Painted Ladies of Ontario aren’t your average beach homes.

This Haudenosaunee restaurant is a delicious tribute to indigenous cuisine.

A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

This towering bee statue is a tribute to Ontario's first meadery and a century-old honey producer.

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

This small museum is dedicated to making sure the history of the natural ice industry doesn't melt away.

The settlement of a leading abolitionist who inspired one of America's most influential novels.

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

A 1975 bylaw prohibits the construction of any building that would block the view of this Gothic Revival church.

This building's metal facade is the last of its kind in all of Canada.

Guelph’s hidden tribute to environmental action.

One of the last remaining covered bridges in the province of Ontario.

Take a ride on antique streetcars from across Canada.

This quaint museum taps into the sweet history of the maple syrup industry.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

At a bridge over the Humber river, markers show the effects of the deadliest hurricane in Canadian history.

A 2,000-foot rainbow-painted bike path marks Toronto’s historic LGBTQ+ beach.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.