Religion

Three Malay graves are at the center of an annual pilgrimage that reflects syncretic practices.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

You can only access this hermitage by crawling under a ledge suspended above an overhang.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

This mesmerizing medieval monastery-cave complex sits thousands of feet above ground overlooking a valley.

A venerated grave atop an ancient royal hill, often attributed to the last king of Singapura.

This tower is all that remains of the mosque that once stood in the center of the city, before it was destroyed by fire in 1941.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

A place to learn about the history and culture of Mexico's largest Anabaptist group.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

The largest mosque in Germany.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.