Shrines

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

A centuries-old shrine where Indians pray for U.S. visas.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

One man built this shrine in the 1970s to pay tribute to a miracle he had witnessed.

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.