3. Justus Becker Mural - 20 Charles Street East

Look up at the colourful mural by German artist Justus Becker on the side of this city-owned parking garage. It celebrates the relationship between Toronto and its sister city Frankfurt -- note the two skylines reflected in the sunglasses. The mural was painted in 2019 and instigated by StreetARToronto, a city program that has been installing artworks big and small across Toronto. As part of this particular piece, a Toronto artist will paint a mural in Frankfurt.

The parking garage was built atop the Yonge Street subway as north of Wellesley station it runs next to, rather than under, Yonge itself. Walk south to find the chain of parks also built overtop the subway. The first is named after the late George Hislop, an LGBTQ activist in Toronto, followed by Norman Jewison park, named after the famed Canadian film director who has an office in a building alongside it.