For a generation of viewers in the late 1960s, Dark Shadows was a daily ritual of chills, romance, and gothic glamour ...

Other notable locales where gargoyles and grotesques go to roost include Harper Memorial Library, with its depictions of scribes and philosophers strewn across its exterior, and Rockefeller Chapel, ...

(See Notre Dame in 16 vintage photos from our archive.) Cranes were innovations used in the construction of Gothic cathedrals, shown in this illustration. Cathedrals arose for different reasons.