Visit the iconic Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, known for its top two floors completely covered in gold leaf and surrounded by beautiful gardens
Experience world's largest Buddhist temple in Java
Experience Myanmar's golden Buddhist pagoda
Visit the White Temple, a unique contemporary Buddhist temple in Thailand known for its intricate white architecture and symbolic art
Explore Tibet's former home of the Dalai Lama
Explore Ethiopia's rock-hewn churches
The Jordan riverbank where John baptised Jesus, with Byzantine churches and pilgrims wading in white robes.
Visit Tibet's most sacred Buddhist temple
The basilica over the grotto venerated as Jesusโs birthplace in Bethlehem.
One of Shintoโs holiest shrines, said to house the sacred sword of the imperial regalia, set in a 1,000-year-old camphor forest.
Sacred, uninhabited white-sand island.
Calm lagoon and voodoo villages.
Vast mosque of the Mouride brotherhood, goal of the Grand Magal pilgrimage.
Hill covered in thousands of crosses.
Whitewashed monastery built into a sheer cliff face, the most visited pilgrimage site in the Balkans.
Sacred forest of shrines and sculpture along the Osun river, a UNESCO site.
Sacred mountain and pyramids, UNESCO-listed.
Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple.
Birthplace of Jesus and the Nativity church.
One of the worldโs largest stupas, ringed by prayer wheels and monasteries.
Birthplace of the Buddha, UNESCO-listed.
Gilded boulder balanced on a cliff edge, crowned by a small stupa.
Judaismโs holiest prayer site, the retaining wall of the Second Temple.
Sikhism's radiant golden shrine.
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