The "citadel of women": pink sandstone carved so finely it is called the jewel of Khmer art.
One of the worldโs largest stupas, ringed by prayer wheels and monasteries.
Gilded boulder balanced on a cliff edge, crowned by a small stupa.
Cathedral-sized salt chambers with an underground lake and Ferris wheel.
The hilltop where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land, with views to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem.
Bulgaria's grandest mountain monastery.
The "Pink Mosque", famous for the kaleidoscope its stained glass throws at dawn.
Church blasted out of solid granite in 1969, lit by a copper dome โ Helsinkiโs most striking modern building.
Freshwater lake ringed by biblical sites and lakeside hot springs.
Colonnaded temple in the middle of Luxor, best at night when the pharaonic statues and obelisk are floodlit.
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.
Nubian Aswanโs feluccas and islands, plus the Temple of Isis moved stone by stone to escape the rising Nile.
Eleventh-century cathedral with original mosaics, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Judaismโs holiest prayer site, the retaining wall of the Second Temple.
Nineteen immaculate garden terraces cascading down Mount Carmel.
St Petersburgโs onion-domed church, lined inside with 7,000 mยฒ of mosaic.
Istanbul's six-minareted mosque.
Greek Orthodox monastery clinging to a sheer cliff face in the Pontic Mountains.
Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.
Underground cathedral carved into the tunnels of a working salt mine.
Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.
Parisโs 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
Journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in the poem that founded the Italian language
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.
Shrine to the god of learning where students pray before exams, reached along a lane of plum-blossom mochi shops.
Read the Tripitaka (Pali Canon), the foundational scriptures of Theravada Buddhism
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