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

This half-ton piece of the Alps sits at the base of the CN Tower.

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

Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."

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

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Within the church are the relics of the martyrs St. Jean de Brébeuf, St. Gabriel Lalemant, and St. Charles Garnier.

Reputedly the smallest jail in North America.

Known as the "Kissing Bridge" for its privacy, it also happens to be the last covered bridge in Ontario.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

The ruins of a rehabilitation center for World War II vets can be found in the Westminster Ponds Conservation area.

The "birthplace of insulin," where Sir Frederick Banting realized the hormone could save the lives of Type 1 diabetics.

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

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

Over 60 chemical plants and oil refineries sit in a 15-mile-wide section outside town.

World's largest Christmas store.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.