Casa Loma is one of those places that you really should see if you are in Toronto, and it is worth seeing. The exterior is beautiful, there's a lot of history and movie trivia that relates to is, you can go via an underground tunnel to the stables, and there is even a short film featuring Colin Mochrie.
It is also a place that brings up some mixed feelings. It is really too large. It could probably be just as beautiful being one story shorter, or by having the existing levels not stretch quite so far. In some ways it seems like a perfect example of hubris in the construction, and a comeuppance with the loss of the property due to back taxes. However, Henry Pellatt's financial difficulties came largely from the government expropriating not one but two large sources of income for him: his electrical power generating business and his airplane manufacturing business. Even if this expropriation was necessary for the war effort, you'd think they could have at least given him a large tax credit.
Therefore, it will be very easy to go and have a feeling that things are simply not as they should be, but that is not a reason not to go.
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