Church Spotter Showdown: Part 2

[B] Saint Joseph's Oratory | Montreal's miracle mountain features 99 wooden steps climbed on knees by pilgrims, while Brother André's heart sits pickled in a jar upstairs.

[A] Shrine of St. Paulina | Brazil's first saint gets a modernist temple where glass walls dissolve into gardens, proving holiness doesn't require Gothic gloom.

[C] Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral | Sinking slowly into ancient Aztec lake bed, this baroque beast tilts visibly while 16 chapels hold five centuries of Mexican faith.

[A] Chartres Cathedral | Blue Virgin windows glow with medieval chemistry secrets lost to time, while its labyrinth offers 261 meters of meditative walking in 11 circuits.

[B] Berlin Cathedral | Kaiser Wilhelm's Protestant answer to St. Peter's houses the Hohenzollern crypt where Prussian royalty decompose beneath tourist footsteps in baroque splendor.

[D] Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) | St. Paul's copper dome turned green overlooking the Mississippi, where F. Scott Fitzgerald was baptized before writing about less sacred matters.

[B] St. Marys, Kansas | Immaculate Conception Church anchors America's largest traditional Catholic community, where Latin Mass never left and time forgot to modernize.

[C] Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels | Los Angeles built its cathedral earthquake-proof with base isolators, making it the world's most expensive spiritual shock absorber at $190 million.

[A] De Hoeksteen | Netherlands' Protestant megachurch proves Reformed theology embraces stadium seating, hosting 3,000 worshippers in industrial-chic salvation.

[D] San Giovanni Rotondo | Padre Pio's shrine seats 6,500 under Renzo Piano's stone seashell, where stigmata souvenirs outsell postcards ten to one.

[B] Ulm Minster | World's tallest church spire at 161 meters requires 768 steps and an iron will, rewarding climbers with views to the Alps.

[D] York Minster | Medieval stained glass survived Cromwell, Hitler, and a lightning strike that should have vaporized it, making this England's luckiest Gothic giant.

[A] Bourges Cathedral | Five portals lead to France's widest Gothic nave, where no transept interrupts the stone symphony flowing from door to altar.

[C] Reims Cathedral | French kings got crowned here 25 times, including Charles VII with Joan of Arc watching, before German shells tried ending the tradition.

[D] São Paulo Cathedral | Neo-Gothic meets São Paulo smog on this Italian marble giant, where 8,000 people contemplate God while helicopters buzz overhead.

[A] Esztergom Basilica | Hungary's largest church guards Europe's biggest altar painting on canvas, requiring its own climate control system to prevent artistic apocalypse.

[C] Diocesan Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe | Zamora's pink stone sanctuary draws Mexican pilgrims to its neo-Gothic towers that locals swear glow at sunset without any help.

[B] Basilica de la Sagrada Familia | Stone still wet with 140 years of drizzle, its spires growing like stalagmites against the Barcelona sky—part church, part coral reef, forever under construction.

[D] Strasbourg Cathedral | Its astronomical clock performs a mechanical puppet show daily at 12:30, making apostles parade while Death rings the hours.

[B] Primate Cathedral of Bogotá | Two centuries of stone and thunder on Plaza de Bolívar—where Latin-America’s first primate still tolls the Andes from twin towers that watched Bolívar’s rebels swear the oath of independence.

[A] Palma Cathedral | Gaudí redesigned its interior before tackling Sagrada Familia, practicing his organic style on Mallorca's Gothic bones beside the Mediterranean.

[C] New Cathedral, Linz | Austria's largest cathedral stopped one meter short of Vienna's Stephansdom out of respect, making humility measurable in limestone.

[D] Speyer Cathedral | Eight Holy Roman Emperors rest in its crypt, making this Romanesque beast Germany's most royal graveyard with UNESCO approval.

[B] Provo, Utah | Brigham Young University's devotional hall demonstrates Mormon architecture's preference for function over flying buttresses in holy education.

[A] Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima | Pizarro's bones supposedly rest here after multiple moves, though DNA tests keep finding new conquistadors in the wrong boxes.

[C] Westminster Cathedral | London's striped Byzantine surprise took 108 years to mostly finish its mosaics, still leaving bare brick waiting for donations.

[D] Medak Cathedral | India's largest Anglican church uses Italian marble floors that stay cool in Telangana heat, converting temperature into congregation comfort.

[A] Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health | Velankanni's "Lourdes of the East" survived the 2004 tsunami while buildings around it vanished, adding another miracle to its collection.

[C] Lincoln Cathedral | Once earth's tallest building until its spire collapsed in 1548, leaving stumps that still make architects wonder what might have been.

[B] St. Mary's Church | Gdańsk's brick titan can fit 25,000 people, making it Poland's largest brick church and Europe's most spacious Protestant paradox.