The unrealized tower was conceived as “something between a hotel, cultural complex, vertical city and secular cathedral,” ...

This story originally appeared published in the December 1939 issue of National Geographic magazine and has been put online as part of our From the Vault series. See more digitized stories from our ...

People often assume they’re simply decorative but the gargoyles are vital to the structure of Notre Dame, serving as part of the water drainage system. Still in use today, when the drainage system was ...

Towering over Lafayette Square in the Historic District, the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist's Gothic towers should lure in any architecture buff. The original cathedral was established in ...