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The Weeknd filmed his music video for the song "Secrets" in this building that has five floors and an iconic glass elevator; home to Toronto's rare book collection, it welcomes over 1.5 million visitors a year.
What is the Toronto Reference Library?
This neighbourhood is home to more than half of Toronto's Tibetan population, making it the largest Tibetan ethnic enclave in North America.
What is Little Tibet?
This is the transit system that ranked #1 in North America in 2014.
This Toronto mayor's drug scandal was dramatized in a film titled Run This Town starring Ben Platt, Mena Massoud, and Nina Dobrev.
Who is Rob Ford?
This annual October art festival starts at 7pm and goes all night.
What is Nuit Blanche?
Architect EJ Lennox was denied a plaque crediting him for the creation of this building; he is said to have spitefully carved unflattering portraits of city politicians into the grotesques that line its facade in retaliation.
What is Old City Hall?
This neighbourhood houses the "Hollywood North" Walk of Fame.
What is the Entertainment District?
This viaduct that connects the downtown core to the eastern side of the city holds the record as the site of the second most suicides of any bridge in the world; its early history is fictionalized in the novel In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje.
What is the Prince Edward Edward Viaduct?
Toronto was the only city in the Americas to see deaths from this respiratory disease that made international news in 2003.
What is SARS?
Popular sitcom Kim's Convenience is an adaptation of a play by the same name that debuted at this Toronto festival.
What is the Toronto Fringe?
The outlet of this river functions as the southern part of the border between Toronto and Pickering.
What is the Rouge River?
What is Kensington Market?
This TTC bus route, running along Lawrence Avenue from Eglinton Station to Starspray Boulevard in Scarborough's Rough National Urban Park, is the longest bus route in the city.
What is the 54A?
Time magazine called this the "most influential film festival, period."
What is TIFF?
This Broadway musical about Newfoundland and 9/11 was written by two Toronto composers at Sheridan College.
What is Come From Away?
A prominent feature of the Church-Wellesley Village since its opening in 1970, this is the oldest continually operating LGBTQ bookstore in the world.
What is GLAD Day?
Don't confuse it with the more famous "The Junction" at St. Clair West and Keele—this Scarborough neighbourhood near Warden Station has a similar name.
What is the Scarborough Junction?
Bordered by Bloor, Parliament, Wellesley, and Sherbourne, this downtown Toronto neighbourhood is the most densely populated census area in Canada.
What is St. James Town?
In 2010, protests at this international summit of world leaders led to the largest mass arrest in Canadian history.
What is G20?
This is the only museum in Canada dedicated to exhibiting fibre arts.
What is the Textile Museum of Canada?
This neighbourhood is home to the largest collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America.
What is the Distillery District?
This neighbourhood, also known as the epicentre of "Ford Nation," sits in Toronto's north western corner and is represented in Queen's Park by Ontario's Premier.
What is Rexdale?
At over 240 hectares in size, this Scarborough park that borders UTSC and Centenary Hospital is the largest municipally managed park in Toronto.
What is Morningside Park?
This former YouTuber from Scarborough is the first person of Indian descent to host a late-night talk show on an American network.
Who is Lilly Singh?
This Riverdale neighbourhood theatre first opened in 1905 as "La Plaza", an Edwardian vaudeville stage; now a concert venue, its new name comes from a centuries old form of Italian musical theatre.
What is The Opera House?