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Paris, France
Basilique Notre-Dame-des-Victoires
A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.
Ballymena, Northern Ireland
Slemish Mountain
A brisk climb up this solitary peak leads to the origin story of a towering figure in Irish history.
Liège, Belgium
Collégiale Sainte-Croix de Liège
A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.
Jelling, Denmark
Jelling Viking Monuments
Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.
Killea, Ireland
Secret Celtic Tree Cross
A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.
Permanently Closed
Beloit, Wisconsin
Angel Museum
The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.
Selçuk, Turkey
Yedi Uyurlar Mağarası (Cave of the Seven Sleepers)
Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.
Otranto, Italy
Ossuary Chapel of the Cathedral of Otranto
A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.
rites and rituals
Inside the World's Only Surviving Tattoo Shop For Medieval Pilgrims
The Razzouk family has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.
Dili, Timor-Leste
Cristo Rei
This giant Christ statue was a failed attempt by Indonesia to dissuade East Timor from demanding independence.
Aubagne, France
Santons Maryse Di Landro
This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.
Schulenburg, Texas
Painted Churches of Texas
Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.
Golden Meadow, Louisiana
Holy Mary Shrine
One man built this shrine in the 1970s to pay tribute to a miracle he had witnessed.
Córdoba, Spain
Mezquita (Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba)
Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.
Perushtitza, Bulgaria
The Red Church
Ruins of an early Roman Christian church dating back to the 4th to 5th centuries.
sacred spaces
Found: A Crucifix That Could Change Christian History
It's dated to the early 900s.
sacred spaces
The Rebel Virgins and Desert Mothers Who Have Been Written Out of Christianity's Early History
Valkenburg, Netherlands
Museum Romeinse Katakomben (Roman Catacombs Museum)
Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.
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