Montreal, Québec
Oratoire St. Joseph
City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.
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Montreal, Québec
City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.
Montreal, Québec
Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.
Montreal, Québec
Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.
Montreal, Québec
A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.
Montreal, Québec
The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.
Montreal, Québec
Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.
Montreal, Québec
Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.
Montreal, Québec
This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Montreal, Québec
Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Rjukan, Norway
For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.
LaPlace, Louisiana
All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.
Somerville, Massachusetts
A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.
Somerville, Massachusetts
A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects
Somerville, Massachusetts
A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.
Somerville, Massachusetts
A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.
Newport, Rhode Island
The site of the largest mass execution in Rhode Island history, haunted by the ghosts of hanged pirates.
Newport, Rhode Island
The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.
Newport, Rhode Island
The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.