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A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.