Author Lori Erickson invites you to learn about spiritual sites around the world by clicking on the regions or faith traditions below. You can also use the search box at right (on mobile devices, at the bottom of page).
Regions
Spiritual Sites in North America
Spiritual Sites in the Middle East
Spiritual Sites in Mexico & Central & South America
Spiritual Sites in the Pacific
Christian Pilgrimage Sites Around the World
Faith Traditions
Christian
United States: Alabama’s Ave Maria Grotto; Alabama’s Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Amish Country of Northern Indiana; Black Angel of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Chimayo, New Mexico, Healing Shrine; Connecticut’s Enders Island; Cornell University’s Sage Chapel; Dubuque’s Tiffany Windows; Florida’s St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine; Indiana’s Saint Meinrad Archabbey; Iowa’s Grotto of the Redemption; Iowa’s New Melleray Abbey; Iowa’s Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat; Kentucky’s Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill; Lake of the Ozark’s National Shrine of Mary, Mother of the Church; Latter-Day Saints Landmarks in Independence, Missouri; Latter-Day Saints Sites in New York; New Mexico’s Center for Action & Contemplation; Michigan’s Bay View Association; Michigan’s National Shrine of the Cross in the Woods; Milwaukee’s St. Joan of Arc Chapel; Milwaukee’s Basilica of Saint Josaphat; Missouri’s National Churchill Museum and Church of St. Mary; Missouri’s Community of Christ Temple; National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Illinois; New Harmony, Indiana; New York’s Abbey of the Genesee; North Carolina’s Ben Long Frescoes; Salem, Massachusetts; Saint John’s Bible in Minnesota; Saints Center for Culture and the Arts in Stuart, Iowa; Sedona’s Chapel of the Holy Cross; South Dakota’s Stavkirke; St. Anne’s Shrine in Wisconsin; St. Louis Churches; Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah; Thomas Merton Tour in Kentucky; With the Mennonites (and the Eisenhowers) in Kansas; Wisconsin’s Sinsinawa Mound; Wisconsin’s Dickeyville Grotto; Wisconsin’s Holy Wisdom Monastery; Wisconsin’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine; Wisconsin’s St. Isaac of Syria Skete;
Central and South America: Mexico City’s Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Europe: Belgium’s Shrine to Father Damien; Bruges, Belgium; Celtic Christian Sites in Ireland and Great Britain; England’s Glastonbury; England’s Lindisfarne; England’s York Minster; England’s Whitby Abbey; Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany; Gaudi’s Crypt of the Colònia Güell; Hildegard of Bingen Sites; Germany: Pilgrimage Sites Along the Rhine River; Germany: St. Apollinaris Church in Remagen; Grand Beguinage of Leuven, Belgium; Icelandic Pilgrimage; Ireland’s Glendalough; Lourdes, France; Martin Luther Sites in Germany; Mezquita in Spain; Montserrat in Spain; Northern Ireland: In the Footsteps of St. Patrick; The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain; Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Scotland’s Iona; Seville Cathedral in Spain; Taizé Community in France; Wales’ Celtic Christian Sites; Zaragoza, Spain: Our Lady of Pilar
Middle East: Cappadocia’s Cave Churches; Christian Sites in Egypt (including St. Catherine’s Monastery and Coptic Cairo Sites); Ephesus in Turkey; Israel (including Bethlehem, Masada National Park, Capernaum, Nazareth, Dead Sea, and Galilee and the Jordan River); Jerusalem: The Holy City (including Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The Mount of Olives, Israel Museum & The Shrine of the Book, St. George’s Cathedral & Garden Tomb, and Jerusalem History); Turkey’s Holy Sites (including Istanbul, Hagia Sophia, Ephesus, House of the Virgin Mary, and Pergamum); Vatican Necropolis Tour; Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica; Vienna’s Most Beautiful Churches: Karlskirche & Holy Trinity;
General: Christian Pilgrimage Sites Around the World
Buddhist
Beomeosa Temple, South Korea; Drala Mountain Center in Colorado; Drepung Gomang Tibetan Buddhist Center in Louisville, Kentucky; Gyeongju, South Korea; Indiana’s Tibetan Buddhist Temple; Iowa’s Ryumonji Zen Monastery; Japanese Tea Ceremony; Spiritual Sites in Kyoto, Japan; Sedona’s Amitabha Stupa; Seeing the Dalai Lama in Person; Wisconsin’s Deer Park Buddhist Center (including Meaning of Tibetan Prayer Flags)
Hindu
Hindu Temple & Cultural Center of Iowa
Jewish
Israel; Masada National Park; Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago
Muslim
Arab American Community of Dearborn, Michigan; Istanbul’s Blue Mosque; Istanbul’s Pavilion of the Holy Mantle; Rumi’s Tomb in Konya, Turkiye; Spain’s Mezquita; Whirling Dervishes
Indigenous/Native American
Ancient Ohio Trail; Aztec History at Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology; Albuquerque’s Gathering of Nations Pow Wow; Badlands National Park in South Dakota; Bear Butte in South Dakota; Cahokia Mounds in Illinois; Chimney Rock National Monument in Colorado; Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota; Devils Tower in Wyoming; Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa; Fremont Petroglyphs in Utah; Ganondagan and the Iroquois White Corn Project; Hawai’i’s Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Icelandic Pilgrimage; Maori Tourism in New Zealand; Mayan Sites in Mexico & Guatemala; Mesa Verde Region in Colorado; Mexico City’s Templo Mayor; Mexico’s Teotihuacan; New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon; New Mexico’s Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and Acoma Pueblo; Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota; Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Spiritual Traditions of Michigan’s Mackinac Island; Wounded Knee Museum in Wall, Wyoming’s Medicine Wheel
Ancient Traditions
Ancient Ohio Trail; Ancient Sites in Rome; England’s Avebury Stone Circles; England’s West Kennet Long Barrow; Cruising the Nile River (including Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, On Board a Nile Cruise, and the Temple of Philae); Carnuntum Roman Archeology Park in Austria; Icelandic Pilgrimage; Machu Picchu; Mayan Sites in Mexico & Guatemala; Mexico City’s Templo Mayor; Mexico’s Teotihuacan; Mt. Fuji, Japan; Maori Tourism in New Zealand, Stonehenge; Viking Trail in Canada (L’Anse aux Meadows), Wales’ Prehistoric Sites
Music, Literary & Philosophical Pilgrimages
Anne of Green Gables Tour of Prince Edward Island; Cornell University’s Sage Chapel: A Temple to Learning; Colombia Music & Culture Tour; Icelandic Pilgrimage; Mississippi Blues Trail; Surf Ballroom and Buddy Holly Plane Crash Site in Clear Lake, Iowa; Symphony in the Flint Hills; The Transcendentalist Trail in Concord, Massachusetts, Vienna’s Central Cemetery; Viking Trail in Canada (L’Anse aux Meadows)
Hallowed Ground
D-Day Sites in Normandy, France, Heart Mountain Interpretive Center in Wyoming; Iowa’s Freedom Rocks, Terlingua Cemetery in Texas
Interfaith
Cornell University’s Sage Chapel: A Temple to Learning; Crestone, Colorado; New Harmony, Indiana; Louisville’s Festival of Faiths
Spiritual Experiences in Nature
Badlands National Park: Fierce Beauty; Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado; DeVoto Memorial Cedar Grove in Idaho; Icelandic Pilgrimage; Iowa City’s Harvest Preserve and Sacred Stone Circle; Maori Tourism in New Zealand; Symphony in the Flint Hills of Kansas: the Spirituality of Music; Utah’s Canyonlands Region (including Fremont Petroglyphs); Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Mississippi; Wolf-Watching in Yellowstone National Park
Off-Beat, New Age, and Quirky Destinations
Crestone, Colorado; England’s Glastonbury; Ghost Hunting at Waverly Hills in Louisville, Kentucky; Gothic Milwaukee Ghost Tours in Wisconsin; Icelandic Pilgrimage; Iowa’s Freedom Rocks; Leila’s Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri; The New Age Capital of Sedona, Arizona, Salem, Massachusetts; Vienna’s Central Cemetery and Funeral Museum
Destination Cemeteries & Funeral Museums
Iowa’s Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial; Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts; Terlingua Cemetery in Texas; Vatican Necropolis; Vienna’s Central Cemetery & Funeral Museum; Wisconsin’s Forest Home
Spirituality & Art
Chicago’s National Museum of Mexican Art; Enders Island in Connecticut
Spirituality & Food
Retreat Centers
Lori Erickson is one of America’s top travel writers specializing in spiritual journeys. She’s the author of books that include Holy Rover, Near the Exit, The Soul of the Family Tree, and Every Step Is Home. Her website Spiritual Travels features holy sites around the world.
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