Field guides

Guides

Hand-curated entry points into the atlas. Start with a country, route, or region, then drill into the sites that anchor it.

Cosmological theme

Sacred Origin Sites — where creation began

The places where the world's traditions locate the beginning — navels of the world, primordial mounds, points of emergence, and the cosmic mountain.

Kailash, Temple Mount, Delphi, Heliopolis, Ile-Ife, Uluru

Devotional theme

Twenty sacred sites of miraculous healing

Marian shrines, holy wells, hot springs, and ancient sanctuaries where pilgrims have sought healing for over two millennia.

Lourdes, Fátima, Tirta Empul, Epidaurus and more

Iconographic theme

The Black Madonnas

Twenty of the most-venerated dark-skinned images of the Virgin across Europe and the Americas.

Częstochowa, Montserrat, Le Puy, Rocamadour

Visionary tradition

Sites of Marian and Christic apparitions

Twenty places where Christian visionaries reported being met — by date, with canonical status.

Guadalupe, Lourdes, Fátima, Knock, Medjugorje

Material devotion

Most-visited sites with sacred relics

From Saint Peter's bones to the Buddha's tooth — twenty of the world's great relic shrines.

Vatican, Compostela, Mashhad, Karbala, Kandy

Devotional theme

Twenty sacred sites venerating Shiva

The twelve Jyotirlingas, Mount Kailash, Kashi Vishwanath, and the great living temples of South Asia.

Jyotirlingas, Kailash, Pashupatinath, Pancha Bhuta

Apostolic theme

Twenty sacred sites venerating Mary Magdalene

From Magdala on the Galilee to the Provençal cave at La Sainte-Baume and the relic-shrines of medieval France.

Magdala, Saint-Maximin, Vézelay, Sainte-Baume

Country guide

Japan Sacred Sites

Major routes, canonical traditions, and representative sacred places across the country.

Best for country-level discovery

Route guide

Buddhist Pilgrimage Routes in Japan

A route-first walk through the major Japanese Buddhist circuits: Shikoku, Saigoku, and Bandō.

Best for route planning

Regional guide

Sacred Sites in Sedona

Sedona's most visible sacred landscapes and vortex sites in one regional view.

Best for destination search

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