Destination Explorer

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem's Old City, is the third holiest …

Angkor Wat

UNESCO World Heritage

Angkor Wat is the world's largest religious monument, originally constructed as a Hindu temple dedic…

Borobudur

UNESCO World Heritage

Borobudur is the world's largest Buddhist temple, a monumental 9th-century stepped monument covered …

Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur

Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur marks where Guru Nanak Dev Ji spent his final years and passed aw…

Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana Sahib

Gurdwara Janam Asthan marks the birthplace of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, making Nank…

Lumbini

UNESCO World Heritage

Lumbini is universally recognised as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, an…

Mecca

Mecca is Islam's holiest city, home to the Masjid al-Haram and the Kaaba, and the destination of the…

Medina

Medina is Islam's second holiest city, home to the Prophet's Mosque (Al-Masjid an-Nabawi), where the…

Mount Kailash & Lake Mansarovar

Mount Kailash is a remote, dramatically pyramid-shaped peak on the Tibetan Plateau, sacred to four t…

Old City of Jerusalem

UNESCO World Heritage

Jerusalem's Old City contains the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally held to be the site of…

Pashupatinath Temple

UNESCO World Heritage

Pashupatinath is a sprawling Hindu temple complex on the banks of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, an…

Prambanan Temple

UNESCO World Heritage

Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple compound in Indonesia and one of the largest in Southeast Asia…

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

UNESCO World Heritage

Vatican City is the smallest sovereign state in the world and the spiritual centre of the Catholic C…

Anuradhapura

UNESCO World Heritage

Anuradhapura is Sri Lanka's ancient sacred capital, home to the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi — grown from a c…

Assisi

UNESCO World Heritage

Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis, offers a quieter, more contemplative pilgrimage experience th…

Bagan

UNESCO World Heritage

Bagan is an extraordinary archaeological zone containing thousands of Buddhist temples, stupas and m…

Batu Caves

Batu Caves is a limestone hill containing a network of caves and cave temples, one of the most popul…

Boudhanath Stupa

UNESCO World Heritage

Boudhanath is one of the largest stupas in the world and a central hub of Tibetan Buddhism outside T…

Chinguetti

Chinguetti is a historic caravan town in the Sahara traditionally regarded as Islam's seventh holies…

Christian Rome

UNESCO World Heritage

Beyond Vatican City itself, Rome contains several of Catholicism's other major basilicas — including…

Church of the Nativity

UNESCO World Heritage

The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem marks the traditional birthplace of Jesus and is among the o…

Dhakeshwari Temple

Dhakeshwari Temple is the most important Hindu temple in Bangladesh and the city of Dhaka's namesake…

Fatima

Fatima is a major Catholic Marian shrine built around reported apparitions to three shepherd childre…

Grand Bassin (Ganga Talao)

Grand Bassin, known to Hindu Mauritians as Ganga Talao, is a crater lake considered sacred by the is…

Great Mosque of Kairouan

UNESCO World Heritage

The Great Mosque of Kairouan is one of the oldest and most significant mosques in North Africa, and …

Gurdwara Dera Sahib, Lahore

Gurdwara Dera Sahib in Lahore marks the site associated with the martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the…

Gurdwara Panja Sahib

Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hasan Abdal is built around a rock said to bear the handprint of Guru Nanak …

Harar Jugol

UNESCO World Heritage

Harar Jugol, the walled historic town of Harar, is traditionally regarded by many Muslims as the fou…

Hinglaj Mata Mandir

Hinglaj Mata Mandir is a remote cave shrine in Balochistan, Pakistan, considered one of the most sig…

Historic Buddhist Temples of Kyoto

UNESCO World Heritage

Kyoto, Japan's former imperial capital, contains an exceptional concentration of historic Buddhist t…

Historic Buddhist Temples of Nara

UNESCO World Heritage

Nara, Japan's first permanent capital, is home to Todai-ji Temple and its Great Buddha Hall, one of …

Kandy Sacred City

UNESCO World Heritage

Kandy, the last capital of the Sinhalese kings, is Sri Lanka's most important Buddhist pilgrimage ci…

Karbala

Karbala is home to the shrine of Imam Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and is o…

Lourdes

Lourdes is one of the world's most visited Catholic pilgrimage sites, centred on the Grotto of Massa…

Luang Prabang

UNESCO World Heritage

Luang Prabang is a former royal capital in Laos known for its concentration of Buddhist monasteries …

Mount Athos

UNESCO World Heritage

Mount Athos is a self-governed monastic peninsula containing twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries, so…

Najaf

Najaf is home to the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muha…

Nazareth

Nazareth, in the Galilee region, is venerated as the town where Jesus grew up, and is home to the Ba…

Santiago de Compostela

UNESCO World Heritage

Santiago de Compostela's cathedral is the traditional resting place of the relics of St. James the A…

Seetha Amman Temple

Seetha Amman Temple sits in the hill country near Nuwara Eliya, at a site local tradition associates…

Shwedagon Pagoda

Shwedagon Pagoda is a gilded stupa dominating Yangon's skyline and among the most revered Buddhist s…

Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain

UNESCO World Heritage

Sulaiman-Too is a sacred mountain in the city of Osh that has served as a place of worship for over …

Swayambhunath Stupa

UNESCO World Heritage

Swayambhunath, often called the "Monkey Temple" by visitors for its resident monkeys, sits atop a hi…

Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic

UNESCO World Heritage

The Temple of the Tooth in Kandy houses what is venerated as a relic of the Buddha's tooth, making i…

Umayyad Mosque, Damascus

UNESCO World Heritage

The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus is one of the oldest and largest mosques in the world, built on a sit…