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

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

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.