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Unbeknownst to many, Toronto is full of landmarks, private homes, and even university buildings that supposedly shelter real live ghosts. From the McLaughlin Planetarium at the ROM to the Queen's Park vaults, these are the places that keep ghostbusters in business. Here are a few options if you're looking for a proper scare this Halloween.

University College has long been one of Toronto's most admired buildings. Its Gothic Revival style, inspired in part by the Romantic poets, impressed such distinguished nineteenth-century visitors as Anthony Trollope, Governor General Lord Dufferin, and Oscar Wilde. In Landmarks of Toronto (1893), John Ross Robertson called the University of Toronto building "the crowning architectural glory of Toronto." Perhaps befitting its moody architecture, University College is also home to one of the city's best-known ghost stories. Versions of the story differ, but each follows the same basic plot.

The bands for both the University of Toronto and Ryerson's frosh week concerts are all confirmed and good to go, and they're all extraordinarily excellent.

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

When you go through the doors of City Hall, one of the first things you'll probably see (especially if you're headed to the café, library, or washrooms) is "Metropolis" to your immediate right, an expansive "mural" made out of 100 000 nails, their blunt ends jutting out in patterns of concentric circles. And you won't be able to resist running your hand along it, no matter how late you are for your meeting or how badly you have to get to the washroom. It is arguably, after the building itself, the most impressive and affecting piece of art within Toronto's City Hall.

Little known fact... Frank Gehry hates using computers. He never used one, and likely never will. Gehry Partners LLP, however, has pioneered the use of computers in architecture and design. Nothing built by Gehry Partners LLP over the past fifteenish years would have been possible without their methods and technology.

The hallowed halls of the University of Toronto are not, in all their gothic glory, devoid of a few ghostly legends. Torontoist's favourite is pretty well known among the University College brigade, and rightly so, as it hinges on that ultimate juicy narrative element: a fight over a girl.

Torontoist loves books, we go positively ga ga over them. So when there's a chance for us to pick up cheap books, we can go a little overboard.