Casa Loma

Casa Loma was constructed from 1911 to 1914 and established as museum in 1937. It once was the home of Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, a Canadian soldier and financier, who gained immense wealth from founding the Toronto Electric Light Company in 1883. Now it is owned by the city of Toronto and has become a museum and tourist attraction for visitors to Toronto. Pellatt spent $17 million (modern-day $412 million) to build this castle and went bankrupt. Casa Loma has been used as filming location for many movies and television such as X-Men, Strange Brew, Chicago, The Tuxedo, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Warehouse 13, Twitches Too, and The Pacifier. It is also a popular venue for wedding ceremonies.

Toronto City Skyline

Toronto City as seen on the CN tower

The Best of Washington DC - The National Mall

Washington Monument

Lincoln Memorial

African American Museum

US Capitol

Hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden

While walking around the National Mall in the spring, we wanted to stop by Hirshhorn museum, but we were only allowed to snap few photos from Yayoi Kusama infinity mirrors exhibit at the exiting room. There was a long line to enter the exhibit that day and difficult to get tickets. Now it was over I only have Few photos of the sculptures in the sculpture garden outside. Enjoy!

Bartholdi Park and Bartholdi Fountain

Located right next to US Botanical Garden and US capital, Bartholdi park is a beautiful little garden that was created in 1932 when the U.S. Botanic Garden was relocated, the park was renamed in 1985 after Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the historic fountain located at its center. It was said that gas lamps made the fountain a popular destination in the 1880s as one of the first attractions in the nation's capital to be brightly illuminated at night.