Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

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

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

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

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

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

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.