📍 Only the Best 10 in Toronto, ON

Carousel Bakery, St. Lawrence Market. The peameal bacon sandwich — cornmeal-crusted back bacon on a soft bun — is Toronto's closest thing to a genuinely signature dish, and this stall inside the 1803-founded St. Lawrence Market is the one most locals point to first when asked where to get it. Nine Canadian dollars, cash moves faster than card during the Saturday farmers' market crowd upstairs.

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). The angular, crystal-like Michael Lee-Chin addition looks like it was dropped onto the original 1914 heritage building from somewhere else entirely — a deliberately jarring architectural collision that's become the museum's own visual signature. Twenty-six Canadian dollars regular admission, though the museum runs regular free or pay-what-you-can evening hours; check the current schedule before assuming full price.

CN Tower EdgeWalk. A trained guide stays physically tethered to the same overhead rail as every participant for the entire walk around the outside of the tower's main pod, 356 metres up — the guide's own presence, not just the harness, is what turns this from a stunt into something a genuine first-timer can do calmly. Two hundred seventy-five Canadian dollars, no experience or fitness level required beyond meeting the basic weight guidelines, and the walk itself moves at whatever pace feels comfortable.