Good tourism news is presently a tall order, so it is worth reflecting that Toronto’s own CN Tower was last year’s third most requested destination on Uber, following The Empire State Building and the One World Trade Center. The Canadian National Tower welcomes two million visitors a day and it may be temporarily closed for now, but it still lights up at night and is always available for viewing from various locations in Toronto.

The CN Tower is one of the most photographed buildings in the 416, and it’s not a stretch to see why it was rated one of the Seven Wonders of The Modern World in 1995.

The 553-metre high structure is a communications and observation tower, with fine dining facilities.

May as well spill the beans: Toronto also topped the Uber Eats list for more coffee orders than any other city, with 11 p.m. being peak order time.

Uber’s second most requested destination in 2019 was the One World Trade Center (previously known as the Freedom Tower) in Lower Manhattan, New York City

The building is 104 standard floors high, but the tower has only 94 actual stories and reaches a full height of 541 metres (1,776 feet, significant in that US declared independence in 1776).

There is a Canadian connection too, in that the silver spire was built in Montreal. The heaviest piece of spire weighed almost 70 tons. That and 17 other pieces were too heavy to be driven, so were transferred to the US on a barge for a 2,760-km journey.

Uber’s most requested destination in 2019 was the Empire State Building, in Manhattan, NY. The structure, that broke ground March 17, 1930 logged more than 7 million man-hours for the construction.

The structure has 102 floors, with 1,860 steps from street level to the 102nd floor.