Sacred Spaces

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Abandoned Roman Catholic chapel abused by Satanists before being restored.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Educational foundation that teaches the powers of fourth dimensional physical properties.

Broken Catholic cross now worshiped in the voodoo faith.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.