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

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

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

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

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.