World's longest tramway to a clifftop monastery.
Bulgaria's grandest mountain monastery.
Golden monastery perched on a volcanic plug, guarded by monkeys and nat spirits.
One of the world’s largest stupas, ringed by prayer wheels and monasteries.
Cathedral-sized salt chambers with an underground lake and Ferris wheel.
Eighty-two white marble domes, the world’s largest hand-knotted carpet and reflective pools — Abu Dhabi’s masterpiece.
Angkor Thom’s central temple, where 200 giant serene stone faces stare from 54 towers.
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.
The hilltop where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land, with views to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem.
Gilded boulder balanced on a cliff edge, crowned by a small stupa.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
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.
Eleventh-century cathedral with original mosaics, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Nineteen immaculate garden terraces cascading down Mount Carmel.
Judaism’s holiest prayer site, the retaining wall of the Second Temple.
Freshwater lake ringed by biblical sites and lakeside hot springs.
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.
Nubian Aswan’s feluccas and islands, plus the Temple of Isis moved stone by stone to escape the rising Nile.
Greek Orthodox monastery clinging to a sheer cliff face in the Pontic Mountains.
Istanbul's six-minareted mosque.
Underground cathedral carved into the tunnels of a working salt mine.
Sunken Byzantine reservoir under Istanbul, its columns rising from black water.
Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.
St Petersburg’s onion-domed church, lined inside with 7,000 m² of mosaic.
Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.
Sikhism's radiant golden shrine.
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