Pilgrimages

A place of meditation and prayer, the grotto is a replica of the one in Lourdes, built in gratitude for the healing of a seminary priest. This is the first pilgrimage to take place on August 15 north of the Seine.

Two ancient yew trees with a chapel and an altar built inside their hollow trunks.

Legend says St. Mary Magdalene spent her final 30 years in a secluded mountain cave.

A pilgrimage around a forbidden peak sacred to four faiths.

A ruined priory that was once a favorite pilgrimage site for English kings.

The oldest Egyptian obelisk still standing in its original site.

A memorial marking the original departure point for the two ships carrying the early English settlers to the New World.

The "little Sistine Chapel of Luxembourg" is in the smallest village in the tiny country.

A Christian pilgrimage site that may have also been a temple for the Greek goddess of love.

A temple featuring a giant Tudigong statue, quirky roadside dinosaurs, and stunning Taipei panoramas.

This medieval village clings to a cliff in southwestern France.

Time and local lore colluded to turn this fear-defeating Buddha into a man-eating demon.

This remote Scottish cave has been a site of Christian pilgrimage for many centuries.

Hike along an abandoned railway up to a popular pilgrimage site.

This "hill without a hilltop" has become a famous public pilgrimage site during Holy Week.

The Hindu god Vishnu is said to have walked at this Hindu pilgrimage site.

A mountaintop shrine named for the road to heaven.