The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

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

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

This annual harvest parade features intricate floats covered with fruits, vegetables, and seeds.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

A perfect circle of twenty-four mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric time.