Christianity

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

This quaint museum tells about more than just the birth of Jesus: "betlémy" are an important piece of Czech history.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

A brisk climb up this solitary peak leads to the origin story of a towering figure in Irish history.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

This giant Christ statue was a failed attempt by Indonesia to dissuade East Timor from demanding independence.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

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

One man built this shrine in the 1970s to pay tribute to a miracle he had witnessed.