Travel & Culture

For sheer architectural splendor, it's hard to beat the French monastery of Mont Sant-Michel. Situated at the mouth of a river that spills out into the Atlantic and surrounded by mud flats...

One of the most powerful photographs taken in World War II shows the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral standing untouched above the smoke covering London during the Blitz. The image seemed to convey...

Measuring 534 feet long, 104 to 249 feet wide and 100 to 215 feet tall, York Minster in the town of York is one of the largest churches in the British Isles. It was constructed between the twelfth...

Built between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, Stephansdom, or St. Stephen's Cathedral, has for many years been the most important church in Vienna. As the official seat of the Archbishop...

Cathedral building seems such a uniquely Medieval European endeavor that it's sometimes surprising to realize that the United States has its fair share of cathedrals. One of the most impressive is...

In the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales," a collection of stories and poems about a group of pilgrims making their way to Canterbury Cathedral to pay homage at the shrine...

Built between the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries, St.George's Chapel at Windsor Castle serves not only as the church for the Sovereign when he or she is in residence, it is also...

In April 2008, during his visit to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The largest Catholic...