Toronto Magazine - Premier 2008 - (Page 20) Cityscape take-home kitsch impulse Purchase The gifts we collect in our travels make the best conversation pieces, but in Toronto they also reveal a fantastical toy story of sorts, minus the cowboy. • CN Tower Canada’s National Tower and signature icon of Toronto attracts more than two million international visitors each year. www.cntower.ca • Hockey Hall of Fame Lord Stanley’s symbol of NHL supremacy has been hoisted, drank from, sat in, dropped, used to baptize children and generally worshipped since ponds first froze. www.hhof.com • Ontario Science Centre Three major art installations, science workshops and the Weston Family Innovation Centre collaborate in keeping minds fed and dreams about life on Mars alive. www. ontariosciencecentre.ca • Toronto Zoo Indo-Malaya, Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Eurasia and the Canadian domain come alive in Rouge Park. www.torontozoo.com • Royal Ontario Museum First he did Jurassic Park, then King Kong, Night at the Museum, and now he’s the first permanent exhibition in the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Tyrannosaurus rex is huge right now. www.rom.on.ca • Casa Loma The Spanish for “house on the hill” is the former home of financier Sir Henry Mill Pellatt and the only working urban castle in North America. www.casaloma.org • Attractions across the region — Ontario Place, Bata Shoe Museum, NASCAR Speedpark, Canada’s Wonderland, McMichael Canadian Art Collection — inspire keepsake purchases of their own. Experience, buy, remember forever. www.torontotourism.com/inspiration/familyhome 20 toronto | 2008 Photo: Natasha Nicholson http://www.cntower.ca http://www.hhof.com http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca http://www.torontozoo.com http://www.rom.on.ca http://www.casaloma.org http://www.torontotourism.com/inspiration/familyhome
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