TRAVEL TO “SACRED DESTINATIONS”

Holly Hayes is “a graduate student in religious history who loves to travel” and the creator of a wonderful site, Sacred Destinations Travel Guide. The site has over 1100 sacred sites in 36 countries, plus photographs, maps, reference materials, lists of tours, and helpful trip planning tools.

Included are ancient stones, Buddhist pilgrimages and temples, cathedrals and Catholic shrines, Da Vinci Code places, graves and tombs, Jewish museums and synagogues, monasteries, sacred mountains, Shinto shrines, and UNESCO sites. You can browse by country of category.

Take a look at this web page, even if you aren’t planning to travel—and especially if you are. The URL is http://www.sacred-destinations.com