Religion

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

Dozens of snakes are housed and worshipped within the walls of this Vodun temple.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Some of the earliest leaders of the Moravian congregation are buried here.

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

A modern, secular take on a traditional Virgin Mary motif.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.