Canadian War Museum

This museum still has that new-car smell. The metallic building is itself an eye-catching sculptural gesture, and is worth a glance even if you don’t plan on visiting the exhibits. Fascinating displays wind through the labyrinthine interior, tracing the country’s military history with Canada’s most comprehensive collection of military artifacts. Many of the exhibits were constructed on a human scale, including a haunting life-sized replica of a WWI trench. Don’t forget to take a second look at the facade in the evening – flickering lights pulse on and off spelling ‘Lest We Forget’ and ‘CWM’ in Morse code (in both English and French, of course).