Read the Old Testament, the first major division of the Christian Bible and a foundational text in Judaism, comprising books like Genesis, Exodus, and Psalms.
Read the New Testament, the second part of the Christian Bible covering the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and the early church.
Visit the Dazu Rock Carvings, a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings dating back as far as the 7th century AD
Visit the site of the Temple of Artemis
Visit the historic wooden mosque in Kruszyniany, one of the oldest Tatar mosques in Poland, dating back to the 18th century.
Visit the ancient cave monastery complex of Dawid Gareji in Georgia
Twelfth-century monastery city carved storey upon storey into a cliff face.
Buddhist temple where three million people come at New Year to ward off bad luck — and where the incense-smoke ritual is part of the visit.
One of Shinto’s holiest shrines, said to house the sacred sword of the imperial regalia, set in a 1,000-year-old camphor forest.
Moses against Ramesses, with the ten plagues staged as natural disasters.
Two Jesuit priests search for their mentor in seventeenth-century Japan.
A pentagonal caravanserai-temple built over a natural gas vent, used by Zoroastrians and Hindu pilgrims.
Ancient temple that gave Macau its name.
Old churches of the capital.
Fourth-century monastery where Mesrop Mashtots opened the first Armenian school.
19th-century Orthodox monastery above the sea.
Mongolia’s oldest Buddhist monastery, walled by 108 stupas on the site of Genghis Khan’s capital, Karakorum.
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.
Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple.
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.
Ancient city of the Patriarchs.
Vast Mughal-era mosque of red sandstone and marble domes.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
The hilltop where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land, with views to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem.
Cathedral-sized salt chambers with an underground lake and Ferris wheel.
Nubian Aswan’s feluccas and islands, plus the Temple of Isis moved stone by stone to escape the rising Nile.
Judaism’s 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.
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