Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
One of the world's largest mosques.
One of Islam’s oldest and grandest mosques, glittering with gold mosaics.
The only Greco-Roman colonnaded temple in the former Soviet Union, first-century, above the basalt columns of the Garni gorge.
World's longest tramway to a clifftop monastery.
Ninth-century mosque with the spiralling Malwiya minaret.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
Bulgaria's grandest mountain monastery.
The "citadel of women": pink sandstone carved so finely it is called the jewel of Khmer art.
Vast Mughal-era mosque of red sandstone and marble domes.
Angkor Thom’s central temple, where 200 giant serene stone faces stare from 54 towers.
Eighty-two white marble domes, the world’s largest hand-knotted carpet and reflective pools — Abu Dhabi’s masterpiece.
Church blasted out of solid granite in 1969, lit by a copper dome — Helsinki’s most striking modern building.
The "Pink Mosque", famous for the kaleidoscope its stained glass throws at dawn.
Baroque Benedictine abbey on a rock above the Danube, with a gilded library of 100,000 books and frescoed marble hall.
Nineteen immaculate garden terraces cascading down Mount Carmel.
Eleventh-century cathedral with original mosaics, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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.
Greek Orthodox monastery clinging to a sheer cliff face in the Pontic Mountains.
Istanbul's six-minareted mosque.
Sunken Byzantine reservoir under Istanbul, its columns rising from black water.
St Petersburg’s onion-domed church, lined inside with 7,000 m² of mosaic.
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.
The largest surviving Romanesque church in Europe, built for pilgrims on the road to Santiago and topped by a five-tier octagonal bell tower.
Sikhism's radiant golden shrine.
Paris’s 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
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