Sky Dome
Sky Dome is the world's greatest entertainment center. It's
a host to wide variety of sporting
spectaculars, concerts, family shows and consumers shows.
How big is Toronto's Sky Dome? Well, you could put eight Boeing 747s on the
playing field. Or
all of Eaton Center. Or a 32-home subdivision. Or the Roman Coliseum. Even with
the retractable roof
closed, a 31-storey buildings could fit inside the structure. The $500-millions
buildings opened on June 3,1989, after 32 months of construction. On that day,
inclement weather forced the developers to prove that the panelled roof could
be closed in 20 minutes. The roof runs on a series of steel track and bogies,
weighs 11000 tons and is made up of steel
tresses covered by steel cladding. The eight-acre stadium offers sports fans
five levels of seating and the world's largest video replay screen. More than
50000 people at a time can watch a football or a baseball game, and there is
also a 350-room hotel built into the north end of building, with 70 rooms offering
a view of the playing field. But the building is much more than a place to watch
sporting events under an open roof. There are 23 fast-food stands, 48 beverage
outlets, a 430-seat restaurant for quick-service dining, a 300-foot-long bar
overlooking the field, the largest McDonnells in North America, the Hard
Rock Cafe, and a 120-seat movie theater where tours of the building begin.
Niagara Falls
Every year more than 12 million people come to Ontario to see
the natural phenomenon knows
as Niagara Falls. Many are just married, although no one is quite sure how that
tradition got started. They
come to see the combined cascading power of the 54-metre Canadian Falls - knows
as Horseshoe Falls
- and the American Falls, which soars to 56 meters.
There are a variety of ways to view the spectacle: four boats enter the Horseshoe
Basin and pass directly in front of cataracts, three tunnels allow visitors
to walk behind the Falls. To view the sights from above, you can make a 10-minute
helicopter ride, rise to the top of the Skypod Tower observation deck via the
external glass - fronted elevators, or visit the viewing platform at the Minolta
Tower and Marine Aquarium.