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Church Spotter Showdown: Part 2

Spot the sanctuary by its selfie—no tour bus required.

Church Spotter Showdown: Part 2
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Think every big stone church looks the same? Hold my beer—and my candle.

We start with fridge-magnet cathedrals, then wander off-road to timber chapels and neon mega-sanctuaries that probably sell lattes after vespers. By Part 3 the bell towers blur, gargoyles grin, and you’re screaming “Bavaria or Bogotá?!” at your screen.

Pick wrong and you’re wandering the nave like a tourist hunting the bathroom. Get them right and you’ve teleported the globe in your slippers—choir robe optional, off-key anthem included.

Click start and turn those vacation dreams into bragging rights.

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1. Saint Joseph's Oratory

[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.

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2. Shrine of St. Paulina

[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.

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3. Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

[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.

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4. Chartres Cathedral

[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.

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5. Berlin Cathedral

[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.

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6. Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota)

[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.

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7. St. Marys, Kansas

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

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8. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

[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.

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9. De Hoeksteen

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

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10. San Giovanni Rotondo

[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.

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11. Ulm Minster

[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.

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12. York Minster

[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.

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13. Bourges Cathedral

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

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14. Reims Cathedral

[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.

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15. São Paulo Cathedral

[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.

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16. Esztergom Basilica

[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.

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17. Diocesan Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe

[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.

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18. Barcelona

[B] Barcelona | The cathedral's Gothic cloister keeps 13 white geese, one for each year of martyred St. Eulalia's life, honking holiness since medieval times.

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19. Strasbourg Cathedral

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

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20. Bogotá

[B] Bogotá | The Salt Cathedral burrows 200 meters underground where miners carved a church from halite, creating Christianity's most seasoned sanctuary.

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21. Palma Cathedral

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

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22. New Cathedral, Linz

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

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23. Speyer Cathedral

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

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24. Provo, Utah

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

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25. Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima

[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.

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26. Westminster Cathedral

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

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27. Medak Cathedral

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

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28. Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health

[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.

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29. Lincoln Cathedral

[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.

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30. St. Mary's Church

[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.

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