Judaismโs holiest prayer site, the retaining wall of the Second Temple.
Baroque Benedictine abbey on a rock above the Danube, with a gilded library of 100,000 books and frescoed marble hall.
Golden-domed monastery complex above catacombs of mummified monks.
Colonnaded temple in the middle of Luxor, best at night when the pharaonic statues and obelisk are floodlit.
Sikhism's radiant golden shrine.
The largest surviving Romanesque church in Europe, built for pilgrims on the road to Santiago and topped by a five-tier octagonal bell tower.
Parisโs 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
Shrine to the god of learning where students pray before exams, reached along a lane of plum-blossom mochi shops.
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