Shrines

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

A historic chapel filled with colorful murals and a colorful past.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Liquor and flowers mark a holy site for Indian motorcycle riders.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.