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Ron Brown has written a dozen books on Ontario's ghost towns and roadside attractions (both natural and unnatural). He is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio, and his travel articles have appeared in North American newspapers and magazines. He lives in Toronto.
| Introduction | |
| Ontario's Goat Pastures: The Alvar Communities | |
| Nicholson: A Ghost Town Worth Visiting | |
| Dyer's Dedication: Muskoka's Wilderness Memorial | |
| Canada's Gibraltar: Bon Echo Rock | |
| Ghosts of the Gold Fields: Ontario's Eldorado | |
| The Disappearing River of Peterborough County | |
| London's Blackfriars Bridge | |
| Kingston's Little Round Forts | |
| Castles of the Cuesta | |
| It Came from Outer Space: The Holleford Meteor Crater | |
| Smiths Falls' High-Rise Privy | |
| Trenton's Big Boulder | |
| Rails Under Brockville: Canada's Oldest Railway Tunnel | |
| The Swamp that Feeds the World: The Amazing Holland Marsh | |
| The Comfort Giant: Canada's Biggest Maple Tree | |
| Chiefswood: The Poet's Two-Sided Palace | |
| Woodstock's Death Mask | |
| Dwarf Cedars: Ontario's Oldest Trees | |
| Ontario's Taj Mahal: The Thomas Foster Memorial | |
| Belfountain Park: The Stamp Man's Legacy | |
| Guiding Light: Beautiful Point Abino Lighthouse | |
| Rockwood's Potholes | |
| The Floating Mansions of Lemonville | |
| An Industrial Survivor: Toronto's Gooderham and Worts Distillery District | |
| Secrets of the Swamp | |
| A Utilitarian Beauty: The R.C. Harris Filtration Plant | |
| A Touch of Holland: The Bayfield Windmill | |
| Carved in Stone: The Apple Park Farm Statues | |
| The Hole in the Hill: The Strange Story of the Eugenia Arches | |
| Point Pelee: Where Canada Begins | |
| The Telltale Grave: The Donnelly Tombstone | |
| Going Around in Circles: Goderich's Eight-Sided Main Street | |
| The Log Castle on White Otter Lake | |
| Grand Canyon North: Ouimet Canyon | |
| Midland's Giant Outdoor Art Gallery | |
| The Algoma Central: A Train Ride from the Past | |
| The White Crests of Killarney | |
| Cottage Country South: The Toronto Island Community | |
| Moose Factory's Floating Church | |
| The Ruins of St. Raphael | |
| Ontario's Smallest Ferry | |
| The Lake on the Mountain | |
| The Dune that Ate a Town | |
| Waterway from the Past: The Rideau Canal | |
| The Teaching Rocks: Peterborough's Petroglyphs | |
| Boats in the Air: The Kirkfield Lift Lock | |
| Boats on Rails: The Big Chute Marine Railway | |
| Ontario's Black Gold: The Petrolia Discovery | |
| West Montrose: The Last Covered Bridge | |
| Paris Plains Stone Church | |
| The Chettenham Badlands: Ontario's Painted Desert | |
| Sloman's School Car: The Schoolhouse that Rode the Rails | |
| Fort Mississauga: The Forgotten Fort | |
| The Lost Settlement of Newfoundout | |
| Temple of Light: The Sharon Temple | |
| The Dutch Chapel: The Pillars of the Scarborough Bluffs | |
| Toronto Islands's Haunted Lighthouse | |
| Those Perplexing Pukaskwa Pits | |
| The Strange Serpent Mound of Rice Lake | |
| The Southwold Earthworks: A Pre-European-Contact Village Site | |
| Ojibway: The Case of the Missing Town | |
| A Horse Palace: The Casa Loma Stables | |
| The Yorkville Rock and Other Strange Parks | |
| Perfect Purification: The Elevated Wetlands of the Don Valley | |
| Last of a Kind: Blair's Sheave Tower | |
| Kitchener's Pioneer Tower: Cultural Cooperation | |
| Emo's Unusual Norlund Chapel | |
| The Cryptic Gravestone of Rushes Cemetery | |
| Monument to Murder: Massacre at Reesor Siding | |
| The Sudden Splendour of the Elora Gorge | |
| Fossil Hunters' Fantasy: The Rock Glen Gorge | |
| Algonquin Park's Incredible Barron Canyon | |
| The Hell Holes of Eastern Ontano | |
| The Lake with No Waves: The Strange Story of Crawford Lake | |
| Wartime Ghosts: Camp Picton | |
| The Big Sand Pile: Houghton's Sand Hill | |
| A Bit of "Old Mexico": Sparta's Adobe Blacksmith Shop | |
| A City for the Birds: Picton's Birdhouse City | |
| Markham Heritage Estates: A Suburb of Last Resort | |
| A Green Sudbury | |
| Ontario's Ghost-Town Train | |
| Marmora's Big Hole | |
| James Bond and the Secret of Camp X | |
| The Magical Cyprus Lake Grotto | |
| Size Matters: The Battle Over the Country's Smallest Jail | |
| Eight Sides to a House: Woodchester Villa | |
| Pakenham's Stone Arch Bridge: North America's Longest | |
| Ontario's Worst Roads: The Forgotten Corduroy Trails | |
| The Smallest Union Station | |
| The Feeling of Being Watched: Toronto's Old City Hall Gargoyles | |
| Orangeville's Tree Spirits | |
| The Mud Church of Shanty Bay | |
| The Guild Inn's Garden of Ruins | |
| A Legacy in Log: The Madill Church | |
| 3-D-ception: The Trompe l'Oeil Murals of Castle Kilbride | |
| Temagami's Tall Pines | |
| Tiny Town: Toronto's Smallest Houses | |
| Depot Harbour: A Ghost Town Worth Visiting | |
| The Return of Muskoka's Portage Flyer: The World's Shortest Railway | |
| Death from the Tap: Walkerton's Memorial of Tragedy | |
| Index | |
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