Sacred Spaces

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

A golden temple atop a sacred mountain, known for its giant effigy of the revered Pu Xian.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

The magic's in the hole!

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

Giant naked man on a hillside.