Old churches of the capital.
Ancient temple that gave Macau its name.
Monastery with a tall bell tower.
Vast mosque of the Mouride brotherhood, goal of the Grand Magal pilgrimage.
The largest church in the world, a marble replica of St Peterโs standing in the African bush.
Gothic abbey ruins in the hills.
Fourth-century monastery where Mesrop Mashtots opened the first Armenian school.
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.
One of only three Jacobean mansions left in the Americas, still a working sugar plantation with its own rum distillery and steam railway.
Kuwaitโs largest mosque, with a 26-metre dome, Andalusian-style tiling and space for 10,000 worshippers.
Coral-stone lanes and the Old Friday Mosque on the Indian Ocean.
Serbian Orthodox monastery with thousands of medieval frescoes, UNESCO-listed.
The gold-covered national stupa of Laos, said to hold a relic of the Buddha, with a November lantern festival.
Serbian Orthodox monastery, UNESCO-listed.
Soaring 1949 basilica with a green-tiled roof and pointed arches inspired by Congolese huts โ Brazzaville's landmark.
Monastic cells cut into cliffs high above the Dniester river.
Oman's vast, serene grand mosque.
Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple.
The only Greco-Roman colonnaded temple in the former Soviet Union, first-century, above the basalt columns of the Garni gorge.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
One of the world's largest mosques.
Ancient city of the Patriarchs.
One of Islamโs oldest and grandest mosques, glittering with gold mosaics.
Ninth-century mosque with the spiralling Malwiya minaret.
The basilica over the grotto venerated as Jesusโs birthplace in Bethlehem.
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