Religious Parks

This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

A 15th-century park that recreates a bit of the Holy Land in Italy.

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

This religious site features Nepal’s largest statue of Buddha.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

A shrine to the missionary who first brought Islam to China.

Come in, light some incense, and ignore the live snakes around you.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

The skeletons, demons, and corpses serve as a warning of the terrors of Buddhist Hell.

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.