Places miriamrigg Wants to Go

This ancient Bedfordshire church was abandoned when the village's population slowly began migrating to new towns.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A medieval village, with red wooden cottages around a stone church, stands as a well-preserved example of a settlement type that was once common in northern Sweden.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

This unusual roadside attraction filled with handcrafted signage is home to a unique church.

One of the smallest churches in the United States is located along the side of the road in a residential neighborhood.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

One of the oldest Catholic churches in the U.S., situated just east of Gettysburg.

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

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

A park where people have been going to feed friendly pigeons since the 18th century

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.