While Canada is not as well known as a tourist hot spot as some of the other countries in the western hemisphere, it does have its share of wonders to see and do when you are on a trip. Most of the big cities in the country have their own unique offerings for tourists, from a spa in Edmonton located at one of the world's biggest malls to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. People visiting Toronto almost always have to see the CN Tower; there are over two million tourists who come to the site every single year.

Built in the middle of the 1970s, the CN Tower held the world record for the tallest free standing structure for more than thirty years. Although it has since been surpassed, it is still listed as one of the tallest structures in the world and is in fact named one of the seven modern wonders of the world. That title is somewhat controversial, but as anyone offering resume services in Vancouver can attest to, truth is simply in how a phrase is put.

Whatever records it does or does not hold, the CN Tower has some serious clout locally, both because of its role as a tourist attraction and due to more practical considerations. For example, the height of the tower makes it an ideal place for a radio station or other broadcasters to set up shop. Many of the Christian affiliate programs you hear over the airwaves in Toronto and throughout the surrounding areas are set up or bounced off of points on this tall structure. One can only imagine the confusion that would result in the city if the strength of the signals on the tower were diminished!

Corporate communications are not the only signals that rely on the CN tower for broadcasting, either. Odds are that if you are on your blackberry, roaming around the city, the signal is being triangulated through any one of a number of receptors that run up and down this huge structure. When you're talking to your wife on the way home from work, it's the CN tower that is making it possible.

The CN tower was named after the Canadian National railway, but that is not what the initials stand for anymore. CN decided that holding onto the tower would be akin to manufacturing aquarium test kits, that is to say, not an area that really involved railroads. They therefore sold the tower in 1995, and the CN now stands for Canada's National Tower.