Sacred Spaces

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

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

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

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.”