Experience Delhi's Bahá'í House of Worship
Eighth-century Buddhist temple of stone pagodas and painted halls, paired with the Seokguram grotto Buddha above it.
Fourteen gopuram towers over Madurai, every inch of them crowded with painted gods.
The only Greco-Roman colonnaded temple in the former Soviet Union, first-century, above the basalt columns of the Garni gorge.
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.
Medieval Newar royal square of pagodas and wood-carved palaces.
Colonnaded temple in the middle of Luxor, best at night when the pharaonic statues and obelisk are floodlit.
Ramesses II's colossal rock-cut temples.
Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.
The Temple of Dawn: a porcelain-encrusted riverside tower you can climb for views across the Chao Phraya at sunset.
Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.
Sikhism's radiant golden shrine.
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