Sacred Spaces

This house of worship in the Arctic Circle is shaped like an igloo.

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.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

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.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

His body was found mysteriously preserved in a Swedish mine over 40 years after his initial disappearance.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.