Country guide
United States
The United States sacred-site map spans Indigenous homelands, mission churches, Marian shrines, contemplative monasteries, desert pilgrimage landscapes, and newer places of spiritual gathering.
132 sacred sites across 75 regions. Use the tradition and site-type filters to narrow in.
Atlas summary
United States sacred sites overview
Sacred sites in the United States are often best understood by region: Southwestern ceremonial landscapes, Catholic and Orthodox pilgrimage shrines, Native American sacred mountains, healing springs, and urban houses of worship all sit in the same atlas.
Use this page to move from broad geography into specific traditions and site types, then compare individual site pages for access notes, cultural context, and nearby sacred places.
| Coverage | 132 sacred sites across 75 regions. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 6 UNESCO-tagged sites in this country guide. |
By tradition
Showing 145-181 of 181 sites in this country guide
Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
Champion, Champion, Wisconsin, United States
In a quiet corner of Wisconsin's Northwoods, Belgian immigrant Adele Brise reported three apparitions of Mary in October 1859....
Shrine of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Fonda, New York
Village of Fonda, New York, United States
On the north bank of the Mohawk River in upstate New York, a modest shrine marks the place where Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk-Algonquin woman, was baptized in 1676....
Simpsons Gap
Alice Springs / Tjoritja, Northern Territory, Alice Springs / Tjoritja, Northern Territory, Australia
A permanent waterhole cut into red quartzite walls west of Alice Springs, Simpsons Gap is Rungutjirpa to the Arrernte people — the mythological home of ancestral goanna...
Sipapu
Arizona, United States
For many Hopi clans the Sipapuni is the place of emergence: the portal through which the ancestors climbed up from a previous world into this one....
Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
Empire, Michigan, United States
Along the northwestern shore of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, towering dunes rise 450 feet above Lake Michigan, and two islands hover on the horizon....
Snoqualmie Falls, Oregon
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
For the Snoqualmie People, this 268-foot waterfall is where creation began. According to their tradition, Moon the Transformer made the first man and woman here, and the...
Soldier Mountain, California
Redding, California, United States
Soldier Mountain in California's Fresno County appears on lists of Native American sacred sites, though its specific significance, associated tribes, and ceremonial...
Spanish Peaks, Colorado
Walsenburg, Colorado, United States
Rising seven thousand feet above the Colorado plains, the Spanish Peaks emerge as twin sentinels at the threshold between prairie and mountain....
Spirit Mountain, Nevada
Laughlin, Nevada, United States
Rising from the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada, a white granite peak holds the origin of worlds....
Spiro Mounds State Park
Spiro, Oklahoma, United States
Between 850 and 1450 CE, Spiro Mounds served as one of four great ceremonial centers of the Mississippian world....
St. Katharina, Langenzersdorf
Langenzersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria
Rising in the village of Langenzersdorf just north of Vienna, St. Katharina has anchored the spiritual life of this community since 1326....
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
Stone Mountain rises 825 feet above the Georgia Piedmont, a massive quartz monzonite monadnock that dominated the horizon for the Muscogee Creek and Cherokee who held it...
Superstition Mountains, Arizona
Apache Junction, Arizona, United States
The Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix hold sacred significance for three Indigenous peoples....
Sweet Grass Hills, Montana
Whitlash, Montana, United States
Rising more than 3,000 feet above the Montana prairie, the Sweet Grass Hills hold a distinctive place in Native American sacred geography: this is where the Sun Dance was...
Tamanowas Rock Santuary, Washington
Port Townsend, Washington, United States
A 150-foot volcanic monolith rising from Olympic Peninsula forest, Tamanowas Rock has served Coast Salish peoples as a place of vision quests and sacred ceremony for over...
Taos Pueblo
Taos, New Mexico, United States
Taos Pueblo is not a museum, not a reconstruction, not a relic. It is a community....
Tecate Peak, California
Tecate, California, United States
Tecate Peak, known to the Kumeyaay as Kuuchamaa, 'The Exalted High Place,' stands among the most sacred sites of the Kumeyaay people....
Teufelstein (Devil’s rock)
Fischbach, Steiermark, Austria
Three massive boulders stand stacked on the highest summit of Austria's Fischbacher Alps, 1,498 meters above the Styrian countryside....
The parish church of the Assumption (Maria am Berg), Hallstatt
Hallstatt, Upper Austria, Austria
High above Lake Hallstatt, the parish church of Maria am Berg sits between mountain and water in one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlements. Beside it, St....
The Parish Church of the Assumption (Maria am Berg), Hallstatt
Hallstatt, Oberösterreich, Austria
Perched on a steep mountainside above Lake Hallstatt, the Parish Church of the Assumption rises like a declaration of permanence against the transient Alpine weather....
The Sorrowful Mother Shrine
Bellevue, Ohio, United States
In the rolling farmland of northern Ohio, pilgrims have sought solace at this Marian shrine for over 170 years....
Tolay Lake
Sonoma County, California, United States
For at least four thousand years, medicine people traveled from across what is now the western United States—and as far as Mexico—to gather at Tolay Lake....
Truchas Peak, New Mexico
Mora County, New Mexico, United States
Truchas Peak rises to 13,102 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the second highest point in New Mexico....
Two Medicine Lake, Montana
East Glacier Park, Montana, United States
At Two Medicine Lake, you stand within what the Blackfeet call Miistakis—the Backbone of the World. This is not metaphor....
Ubirr
Jabiru / East Alligator region, Northern Territory, Jabiru / East Alligator region, Northern Territory, Australia
Ubirr rises above Kakadu's Nadab floodplain, its galleries layered with rock art spanning tens of thousands of years and its escarpment tied to the Dreaming journey of...
Ute Mountain, New Mexico
Taos County, New Mexico, United States
Ute Mountain is a solitary volcanic cone rising nearly 2,500 feet above the sagebrush plains of northern New Mexico....
Vortex at Boynton Canyon, Sedona
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Boynton Canyon holds the creation story of the Yavapai-Apache people, who understand this as the literal birthplace of their nation....
Vortex at Cathedral Rock, Sedona
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Cathedral Rock rises from the Sedona landscape like hands raised in prayer, its twin spires reflected in the waters of Oak Creek below....
Wallowa Lake, Oregon
Joseph, Oregon, United States
At the foot of Oregon's Wallowa Mountains, a glacial lake holds the heart of Nez Perce homeland....
White Sands, New Mexico
Otero County, New Mexico, United States
White Sands rises as the largest gypsum dune field on Earth, 275 square miles of brilliant white undulation that visitors describe as stepping onto another planet....
Wilpena Pound
Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia, Australia
In the heart of South Australia's Flinders Ranges, Wilpena Pound forms a natural amphitheatre 17 kilometres long and 8 kilometres wide....
Wind Cave, South Dakota
Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States
Deep in the Black Hills, Wind Cave holds the most sacred story of the Lakota people: this is where humanity emerged from the spirit world into the physical world....
Wizard Island, Crater Lake, Oregon
Klamath County, Oregon, United States
Wizard Island rises from the impossible blue of Crater Lake, a volcanic cinder cone within a caldera formed when Mount Mazama collapsed 7,700 years ago....
Worimi Conservation Lands
Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Along the coast north of Newcastle, the largest moving coastal sand dunes in the Southern Hemisphere stretch 32 kilometres....
Yeperenye / Emily and Jessie Gaps Nature Park
Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
A narrow red quartzite gap east of Alice Springs, Anthwerrke (Emily Gap) and Akepelye (Jessie Gap) mark the place where three ancestral caterpillar beings meet in Arrernte...
Zion National Park
Springdale, Utah, United States
For over eight centuries, the Southern Paiute have known these canyon walls as sacred homeland, a landscape alive with spiritual power they call Puha....
Zuni Lake, New Mexico
Catron County, New Mexico, United States
Zuni Salt Lake is a volcanic maar in the high desert of western New Mexico, sixty miles south of Zuni Pueblo....
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United States sacred-site questions
- What sacred sites can I explore in United States?
- Pilgrim Map lists sacred places in United States across living worship sites, heritage landmarks, pilgrimage destinations, and culturally significant landscapes. The current guide lists 132 sites organized by region, tradition, and site type.
- Which traditions are represented in United States?
- The most represented traditions include Indigenous, Christianity, Multi-faith, Ancient Greek and Roman, Islam, Celtic and Prehistoric.
- How should I plan a sacred-site visit in United States?
- Start with regional clusters, compare nearby places on the map, then open individual site pages for coordinates, etiquette, and sacred context where available.
- Can I view United States sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Switch to map view to compare geographic clusters, then open individual site pages for coordinates, visiting context, and related places.