Religious Places

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany you’ll find the Schusterkapelle (Schuster Chapel). Inside the chapel, you’ll find a decorated wooden disp… Read the rest

Shatrunjaya Hill Temple is a mecca for India’s Jains. The pilgrimage site for Jains, an Indian religious group, is particularly epic: a hugely… Read the rest

Bylakuppe is the largest Tibetan refugee settlement in the world. In the 1960s, the Indian government granted asylum to the Dalai Lama, and land was s… Read the rest

Gol Gumbaz is a fabulously imposing structure, towering 51 meters above the surrounding city of Vijayapura and representing one of the most important… Read the rest

Gomateshvara Statue the World’s tallest monolithic statue. Built by Chamundaraya, a poet and minister from the Western Ganga Dynasty, between… Read the rest

Tashiding Monastery in the Himalayas, where a Miraculous vase predicts the future. Legend has it that when guru Padmasambhava wanted to find a place… Read the rest

The ancient temple of Jwala Ji ,built against a wooded spur, has a dome that was glided by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Pilgrims consider an eternally burni… Read the rest

Hindu King of Ghosts According to the Hindu faith, selfish thinking causes negative actions and increased bad karma, and there’s one god fit to rein… Read the rest

Krishna’s Butter Ball — The mystery of the 250-ton boulder that has defied gravity for over 1,300 years. The 20ft rock appears to defy g… Read the rest

The Rapa Pyramid was built by Friedrich Heinrich Fahrenheit (also spelled Fahrenheid), an important official and nobleman for Imperial Eastern Prussia… Read the rest