BUFFALO / NIAGARA GO... SEE

Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica

This opulent church, with its imposing, 165-foot-tall copper dome (second in height to only the US Capitol dome when it was built in 1921), lords over blue-collar Lackawanna. The inside is even more impressive, with stained-glass windows, rare marble sculptures, bright ceiling murals and a grotto made of lava rock from Italy’s Mount Versuvius. (03/2011)