Chaco Culture — New Mexico, USA. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Mesa Verde — Colorado, USA. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Taos Pueblo — New Mexico, USA. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Mount Shasta — California, USA (pilgrimage/esoteric energy traditions). World Pilgrimage Guide

Cahokia Mounds — Illinois, USA. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks — Ohio, USA (new UNESCO inscription). AP News

Banff Sacred Sites (Stoney Nakoda areas) — Canada (Indigenous significance). World Pilgrimage Guide

Teotihuacan — Mexico. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Wirikuta (Wixárika pilgrimage desert) — Mexico. World Pilgrimage Guide

Chichén Itzá & Palenque — Mexico. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Machu Picchu — Peru. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Sacsayhuamán & Q’enco — Peru. World Pilgrimage Guide

Lake Titicaca (Isla del Sol/Isla de la Luna) — Bolivia/Peru. World Pilgrimage Guide

Tiwanaku — Bolivia. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Cueva de las Manos — Argentina (sacred/art site). UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Kogi sacred Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta — Colombia. World Pilgrimage Guide

Nazca Lines — Peru. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Iguazú region (Guaraní sacred landscapes) — Argentina/Brazil.

Great Pyramids & Giza Plateau — Egypt. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Mount Sinai (Jabal Musa) — Egypt. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Lalibela rock-hewn churches — Ethiopia. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Axum (St. Mary of Zion) — Ethiopia. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Timbuktu — Mali. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Djenné (Great Mosque) — Mali. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Meroë pyramids — Sudan. World Pilgrimage Guide

Great Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Ouidah (Vodun sites) — Benin. World Pilgrimage Guide

Kairouan — Tunisia. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Mecca & the Kaaba (al-Masjid al-Haram) — Saudi Arabia. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Medina (Al-Masjid an-Nabawi) — Saudi Arabia. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Jerusalem Old City (Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Western Wall) — Israel/Palestine. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Mount of Olives — Jerusalem. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Göbekli Tepe — Türkiye. World Pilgrimage Guide

Nemrut Dağı — Türkiye. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Samarkand & Bukhara — Uzbekistan. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Yazd (Zoroastrian fire temples, Towers of Silence) — Iran. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Petra — Jordan. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Mount Ararat region — Armenia (sacred in local tradition). World Pilgrimage Guide

Varanasi (Ghats of the Ganges) — India. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Kashi Vishwanath — India. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Bodh Gaya (Mahabodhi Temple) — India. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Amritsar (Golden Temple) — India. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Kedarnath/Badrinath & Char Dham — Indian Himalaya. World Pilgrimage Guide

Sabarimala — India. World Pilgrimage Guide

Sigiriya & Sri Pada (Adam’s Peak) — Sri Lanka. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Lumbini (birthplace of the Buddha) — Nepal. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Katas Raj — Pakistan. World Pilgrimage Guide

Mount Kailash region (Tibet/China borderlands; sacred to multiple faiths) — often accessed via India/Nepal/Tibet routes.

Angkor temple complex — Cambodia. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Borobudur & Prambanan — Indonesia. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Bagan — Myanmar. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Shwedagon Pagoda — Myanmar. World Pilgrimage Guide

Luang Prabang (Wat Xieng Thong, etc.) — Laos. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Ayutthaya & Sukhothai — Thailand. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Shikoku 88-Temple Pilgrimage — Japan. World Pilgrimage Guide

Ise Grand Shrine & Kumano Kodo — Japan. UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Sefa-utaki (Ryukyuan sacred site) — Okinawa, Japan. World Pilgrimage Guide

Wudang Mountains / Mount Emei / Mount Wutai — China. UNES

World Pilgrimage Guide (sacredsites.com) — massive country/region index of sacred places. World Pilgrimage Guide+2World Pilgrimage Guide+2

UNESCO World Heritage (religious/sacred properties and national lists). UNESCO World Heritage Centre+1