Religion of Temple Bucket List

Visit the iconic Itsukushima Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its floating torii gate on Miyajima Island in Japan

Visit the iconic Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, known for its top two floors completely covered in gold leaf and surrounded by beautiful gardens

Explore Egypt's largest ancient religious site

Visit the site of the Temple of Artemis

Visit the White Temple, a unique contemporary Buddhist temple in Thailand known for its intricate white architecture and symbolic art

Experience Myanmar's golden Buddhist pagoda

Experience Delhi's Bahá'í House of Worship

Endless vermilion torii gates in Kyoto.

Visit Tibet's most sacred Buddhist temple

Eighth-century Buddhist temple of stone pagodas and painted halls, paired with the Seokguram grotto Buddha above it.

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.

Ancient temple that gave Macau its name.

The gold-covered national stupa of Laos, said to hold a relic of the Buddha, with a November lantern festival.

Cliffside Paro Taktsang monastery hike.

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.

Gilded boulder balanced on a cliff edge, crowned by a small stupa.

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.

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.

Nubian Aswan’s feluccas and islands, plus the Temple of Isis moved stone by stone to escape the rising Nile.

Colonnaded temple in the middle of Luxor, best at night when the pharaonic statues and obelisk are floodlit.

Judaism’s holiest prayer site, the retaining wall of the Second Temple.

Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.

Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.

Sikhism's radiant golden shrine.

Shrine to the god of learning where students pray before exams, reached along a lane of plum-blossom mochi shops.