Tap a stop to hear its story

1. 1 · Entertainment DistrictCN TowerThe build that changed the skyline — and the crews who poured concrete around the clock for 40 months.
2. 2 · Bremner BlvdRipley's Aquarium of CanadaBuilt on rail lands nobody wanted; now the busiest sidewalk in the district.
3. 3 · Blue Jays WayRogers CentreThe retractable roof, the 1993 home run, and what the neighbourhood looked like before either.
4. 4 · Bay & Lake ShoreScotiabank ArenaA post office turned hockey cathedral — the mail sorting floor is still under your feet.
5. 5 · Front StreetUnion StationWhere most Torontonians' families arrived. We read the names carved in the great hall.
6. 6 · Front StreetFairmont Royal YorkOnce the tallest building in the British Empire, with a rooftop beehive and a guest list of royalty.
7. 7 · Yonge & FrontHockey Hall of FameA bank vault that now holds the Stanley Cup. Our officers have escorted it.
8. 8 · Old TownSt. Lawrence MarketToronto's first city hall, first jail cells, and 200 years of vendors in one building.
9. 9 · Trinity StreetDistillery DistrictThe largest whiskey empire in the world, then a ruin, then a film set. All three stories are visible.
10. 10 · Queen & BayOld City HallThe courthouse steps our retired officers know by heart — and the trials that made headlines.
11. 11 · Queen WestNathan Phillips Square & City HallA global design competition, two curved towers, and every protest and party since 1965.
12. 12 · Yonge StreetCF Toronto Eaton CentreThe department-store dynasty that reshaped Yonge Street — and the blocks it erased.
13. 13 · Shuter StreetMassey HallThe room with the best acoustics in the country, and the night Gould walked off stage.
14. 14 · Yonge StreetElgin & Winter Garden TheatresThe last operating double-decker theatre in the world, with a ceiling of real beech leaves.
15. 15 · Downtown YongeYonge-Dundas SquareToronto's answer to a public square, built over what the papers used to call the strip.
16. 16 · KensingtonKensington MarketA century of arrivals in six blocks: Jewish, Portuguese, Caribbean, Vietnamese, and next.
17. 17 · Spadina & DundasChinatown WestChinatown moved twice before it stayed. We show you both earlier addresses.
18. 18 · Dundas WestArt Gallery of OntarioGehry's hometown building wrapped around a Georgian house that refused to leave.
19. 19 · Queen WestOsgoode HallThe cow gates are real, and so is the reason for them. A journalist's favourite courtroom.
20. 20 · University AvenueQueen's Park & the LegislaturePink sandstone, a secret mace theft, and the press gallery our reporters filed from.
21. 21 · St. GeorgeUniversity of Toronto — King's College CircleInsulin, the first electron microscope in North America, and a stonemason's murder.
22. 22 · Bloor & AvenueRoyal Ontario MuseumThe Crystal, the courtyard it replaced, and the collections that arrived by steamship.
23. 23 · Bloor & BayYorkvilleCoffee houses and folk clubs became the most expensive retail in Canada. Both eras have witnesses.
24. 24 · Davenport & SpadinaCasa LomaA knight built a castle, lost it to taxes, and left the tunnels behind. Our haunted route starts here.
25. 25 · Austin TerraceSpadina MuseumThe family next door to the castle, and the household staff who ran both.
26. 26 · Garrison CommonFort York National Historic Site1813, the magazine explosion, and why the shoreline is now half a kilometre away.
27. 27 · West EndLiberty VillageNamed for the prisoners released from the jail at its gates; now condos and coffee.
28. 28 · Queens QuayHarbourfront CentreWhere the lake actually was, who filled it in, and what is buried under the boardwalk.
29. 29 · Inner HarbourToronto Islands & Billy Bishop AirportA storm made the islands, a community fought to stay, and the group photo happens here.