One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

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

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

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

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.