13th-century Armenian monastery.
Mongoliaโs oldest Buddhist monastery, walled by 108 stupas on the site of Genghis Khanโs capital, Karakorum.
Whitewashed monastery built into a sheer cliff face, the most visited pilgrimage site in the Balkans.
Pine-fringed Black Sea resort with a 10th-century cathedral.
Medieval marble monastery, UNESCO-listed.
19th-century Orthodox monastery above the sea.
The gold-covered national stupa of Laos, said to hold a relic of the Buddha, with a November lantern festival.
Cliffside Paro Taktsang monastery hike.
Soaring 1949 basilica with a green-tiled roof and pointed arches inspired by Congolese huts โ Brazzaville's landmark.
Serbian Orthodox monastery, UNESCO-listed.
Kuwaitโs largest mosque, with a 26-metre dome, Andalusian-style tiling and space for 10,000 worshippers.
Serbian Orthodox monastery with thousands of medieval frescoes, UNESCO-listed.
Coral-stone lanes and the Old Friday Mosque on the Indian Ocean.
One of only three Jacobean mansions left in the Americas, still a working sugar plantation with its own rum distillery and steam railway.
Monastic cells cut into cliffs high above the Dniester river.
Night climb of 5,500 steps to a sacred footprint shared by four religions, timed for sunrise and the peakโs shadow.
Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple.
Oman's vast, serene grand mosque.
Ninth-century mosque with the spiralling Malwiya minaret.
The only Greco-Roman colonnaded temple in the former Soviet Union, first-century, above the basalt columns of the Garni gorge.
One of Islamโs oldest and grandest mosques, glittering with gold mosaics.
World's longest tramway to a clifftop monastery.
One of the world's largest mosques.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
Ancient city of the Patriarchs.
Golden monastery perched on a volcanic plug, guarded by monkeys and nat spirits.
Vast Mughal-era mosque of red sandstone and marble domes.
Eighty-two white marble domes, the worldโs largest hand-knotted carpet and reflective pools โ Abu Dhabiโs masterpiece.
Angkor Thomโs central temple, where 200 giant serene stone faces stare from 54 towers.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
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