Ontario Place

This guide to Ontario Place in Toronto traces architect Eberhard Zeidler's 1971 vision for five silver pods suspended over the water by cable, and the Cinesphere beside them, which opened that same year as the world's first permanent IMAX theatre. It follows the site through its golden summers of crowds and its slow decline, including a 1994 demolition of the wooden forum among the trees. Stand back from the pods for the full view of the cable rigging holding them up.