TravelDay · Heritage journeys
Journeys people have been making for centuries.
Each journey lists its places, says what counts as a visit, links the custodian or government page it was built from, and dates the last time access was checked. Choosing one is an interest. It says nothing about who you are.
African American
Photo: John Morse, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsThe church exterior from the street. An open list of places
African American civil rights
Birmingham, Selma, Memphis, Montgomery, Atlanta. The places where the movement met the country, kept as one list.
19 places on this journey · United States
Photo: 2C2K Photography, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMilbank Agricultural Hall, Carver's original laboratory building. An open journey
African American education and public leadership
The HBCU tour, plus the houses of the people who built schools, banks and a national holiday out of almost nothing.
13 stops · United States
Photo: National Park Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe canal and marsh landscape of the park. An open list of places
African American freedom and abolition
Escape routes, free towns and the houses of people who refused. A journey through the long fight to end slavery in the United States.
17 places on this journey · United States
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe centre on Malcolm X Boulevard. An open journey
Black arts and music
Harlem first, then the road: Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans, Clarksdale, Nashville and Chicago. Where the music and the writing were actually made.
13 stops · United States
African and diaspora
Photo: Jnyssen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe main stelae field at Aksum. An open journey
African kingdoms and cities
Aksum, Abomey, Kilwa, Gondar, Timbuktu. States and trading cities that ran their own affairs for centuries, kept by their own heritage bodies and by UNESCO.
16 stops · Ethiopia, Benin, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Mali, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Botswana and Nigeria
Photo: Miquel Girones, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe coloured houses of the Pelourinho. An open journey
Afro-Brazilian Bahia
Brazil received more Africans than anywhere else on earth, and Bahia is where that is most visible. Nine places that hold it, in Salvador, the Recôncavo, Alagoas and São Paulo.
9 stops · Brazil
Photo: Rjruiziii, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe castle seen from outside, without people in frame. An open list of places
Atlantic slavery: places of remembrance
The Atlantic trade had two shores. This journey follows places of remembrance from West Africa to the Americas and Europe.
18 places on this journey · Ghana, Senegal, Benin, Gambia, United States, Brazil, Guadeloupe, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sierra Leone and Curaçao
Photo: Rjruiziii, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe castle seen from outside. One place
Cape Coast Castle
Ghana's Year of Return made this the place the diaspora comes back to. The dungeons, the sea gate, and the museum above them.
1 place on this journey · Ghana
Photo: SPC Gibran Torres, United States Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe fortress on its mountain, from the air. An open journey
Caribbean freedom and culture
The first Black republic, two Maroon towns that won their treaty, a free village in Colombia, and the yard where reggae was written.
9 stops · Haiti, Jamaica and Colombia
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Photo: Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe converted grain silo on the waterfront. An open journey
Contemporary African and diaspora art
Cape Town, Dakar, Lagos, Cotonou, Accra, Harlem and San Francisco. Museums and foundations showing work by living artists.
8 stops · South Africa, United States, Senegal, Benin and Nigeria
Photo: T.K. Naliaka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe island and its harbour from the air. One place
Gorée Island
A short ferry from Dakar to the island that stands, in UNESCO's words, as a reminder of human exploitation and a sanctuary for reconciliation.
1 place on this journey · Senegal
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Photo: South African Tourism from South Africa, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe island seen across Table Bay. One place
Robben Island
The ferry from the Waterfront, the prison, and a guide who was held in it. A single place that is a journey on its own.
1 place on this journey · South Africa
Photo: South African Tourism from South Africa, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe island seen across the bay. An open list of places
South Africa: imprisonment, resistance, and democracy
A prison island, a fort turned constitutional court, a museum built on a mine dump. Where apartheid was enforced and where it was ended.
10 places on this journey · South Africa
Photo: JJ van Zyl, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMapungubwe Hill above the Limpopo valley. A defined route
Southern African stone kingdoms
Dry-stone cities built without mortar across Zimbabwe and the Limpopo valley, from Mapungubwe to Great Zimbabwe and the kingdoms that followed.
5 stops · South Africa and Zimbabwe
Bahá'í
Photo: Tom Habibi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe shrine and its dome seen from the public gardens. A defined route
Bahá'í holy places: Haifa and 'Akká
Two shrines stand at the centre of the Bahá'í world. One rises from garden terraces on Mount Carmel in Haifa, the other sits in a quiet garden at Bahjí near 'Akká. Both are open to everyone.
2 stops · Israel
Photo: Wenbinbin2010, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe full nine sided dome from the public approach. A defined route
The eight continental Houses of Worship
Eight Bahá'í Houses of Worship were built at continental scale between 1953 and 2016. Each has nine sides and nine doors, entry is free, and nobody is asked what they believe at the door.
8 stops · United States, India, Uganda, Australia, Panama, Samoa, Germany and Chile
Buddhist
Photo: Bpilgrim, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Mahabodhi Temple. One place
Bodh Gaya
The tree and the seat where the Buddha is said to have woken. For many people this is the one Buddhist place.
1 stop · India
Photo: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsShows the temple building from the public forecourt. An open journey
Buddhist Asia
Places where Buddhism took root far from the Ganges plain, in Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana forms.
12 stops · Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, South Korea and Nepal
Photo: Ashesh.bhusal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsShows the Maya Devi Temple itself from the public garden. One place
Lumbini
A marker stone under a temple in the Nepal Terai, where the Buddha is said to have been born.
1 stop · Nepal
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Ryōzen-ji, temple 1. A defined route
Shikoku 88
Eighty eight temples in a loop around one Japanese island, walked in Kukai's memory for more than a thousand years.
88 stops · Japan
Photo: Ashesh.bhusal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsShows the Maya Devi Temple itself from the public garden. A defined route
The Eight Great Places
The four places the Buddha named, plus the four that later tradition added for the miracles told of him.
8 stops · Nepal and India
Photo: Ashesh.bhusal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsShows the Maya Devi Temple itself from the public garden. A defined route
The Four Great Places
The four places the Buddha himself named: where he was born, woke, first taught and died.
4 stops · Nepal and India
Photo: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsShows the temple building from the public forecourt. One place
The Temple of the Tooth
Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist place, where a relic that once conferred the right to rule is kept beside a lake in Kandy.
1 stop · Sri Lanka
Christian
Photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBiete Ghiorgis, the cross-shaped church cut into its pit. An open journey
Eastern and Oriental Christian Monastic Heritage
Monasteries of the Orthodox and Oriental churches, from rock cut into Ethiopian highlands to cliffs in Greece, Egypt, the Caucasus and the Russian north.
24 stops · Ethiopia, Greece, Egypt, Bulgaria, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Palestine, Serbia, XK and Syria
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Photo: dynamosquito from France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe esplanade with the colonnade and basilica. One place
Fátima
Portugal's national pilgrimage, on an esplanade twice the size of St Peter's Square.
1 stop · Portugal
Photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBiete Ghiorgis, the cross-shaped church cut into its pit. One place
Lalibela
Eleven churches cut down into the rock of the Ethiopian highlands, still in daily use after eight centuries.
1 stop · Ethiopia
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Photo: Père Igor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe basilicas above the grotto, the view that identifies the sanctuary. One place
Lourdes
The most visited Marian shrine in Europe, built around a grotto on the bank of the Gave de Pau.
1 stop · France
Photo: Père Igor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe basilicas above the grotto, the view that identifies the sanctuary. An open journey
Marian Shrines
Places where people have gone to ask something of Mary, from a Pyrenean grotto to a hill in Mexico City and a field in Gozo.
14 stops · France, Portugal, Mexico, Poland, Italy, Ireland, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Algeria, Austria and Malta
Photo: Falk2, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe house and its Katharinenportal. An open journey
Reformation Homes and Learning
Where the Reformation was argued, printed and taught. Wittenberg and the Wartburg, then Zurich, Geneva, Prague, Worms and Edinburgh.
12 stops · Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic and United Kingdom
Photo: Fernando, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Obradoiro facade, the view every walker arrives to. One place
Santiago de Compostela
Arrival at the cathedral is the end of every Camino, however you got there.
1 stop · Spain
Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe facade and the dome from the square. One place
St Peter's Basilica
The Vatican basilica, on its own. The end of the Via Francigena and the largest church in the world.
1 stop · Vatican City
Photo: Rafael Aparicio, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe new basilica and the old one together on the plaza. One place
The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The most visited Catholic shrine in the world, on Tepeyac hill in Mexico City.
1 stop · Mexico
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe courtyard and facade, the view most pilgrims see first. A defined route
The Christian Holy Land
The Gospel places pilgrims have walked for sixteen centuries, from the Holy Sepulchre to Galilee and the Jordan.
17 stops · Israel and Palestine
Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe facade and the dome from the square. A defined route
The Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome
The seven-church walk Philip Neri revived in the 1550s. About twenty-five kilometres, from St Peter's round to the Appian Way.
7 stops · Vatican City and Italy
Photo: Fernando, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Obradoiro facade, the view every walker arrives to. An open journey
Where the Pilgrim Roads End
The cathedrals and basilicas that medieval walking routes were built to reach, from Santiago and Rome to Trondheim and Conques.
16 stops · Spain, Vatican City, Norway, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Germany
Dharmic
Photo: Ondřej Žváček, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Mount Kailash. One place
The Kailash kora
A fifty two kilometre walk around a Tibetan peak that Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Bon followers all hold sacred. Nobody climbs it.
1 place on this journey · China
Hindu
Photo: रामेश्वर गौड़, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Badrinath Temple. A defined route
Char Dham
Four seats at the four corners of India: Badrinath, Dwarka, Puri and Rameswaram.
4 stops · India
Photo: Atarax42, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Yamunotri. A defined route
Chota Char Dham
Four Himalayan shrines in Uttarakhand, open for about six months a year: Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath.
4 stops · India
Photo: Kumar Appaiah, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Meenakshi Amman Temple. An open journey
Great temples of India
Temples worth the journey for what they are: Chola granite, Odisha stone, a gold vimana on a hill and a marble mandir on the Yamuna.
12 stops · India
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Pashupatinath Temple. An open journey
Hindu temples beyond India
Temples built by communities who carried the tradition to Nepal, Mauritius, Malaysia, Britain and North America.
7 stops · Nepal, Mauritius, Malaysia, United Kingdom, United States and Singapore
Photo: Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Prambanan. An open journey
Hindu temples of Southeast Asia
Temples built by Hindu kingdoms in Java, Cambodia, Champa and the Malay world, some ruined and some still in daily use.
9 stops · Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore
Photo: रूही, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Ayodhya. A defined route
Sapta Puri: the seven holy cities
Seven cities named in tradition as places of release: Ayodhya, Mathura, Haridwar, Kashi, Kanchipuram, Ujjain and Dwarka.
7 stops · India
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Photo: B. SurajPatro1997, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Somnath Temple. A defined route
The twelve Jyotirlingas
Twelve Shiva temples named in the Shiva Purana, from Somnath on the Arabian Sea to Rameswaram in the far south.
12 stops · India
Photo: Adityamadhav83, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Sri Venkateswara Temple. One place
Tirupati
The Venkateswara temple at Tirumala, the most visited temple in the world.
1 stop · India
Photo: Marcin Białek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Varanasi. One place
Varanasi
Kashi, the city on the Ganga where people come to live, to bathe and to be cremated.
1 place on this journey · India
Indigenous communities
Photo: Leonard G., Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsA distant dawn view of the whole rock with Kata Tjuṯa behind, the kind of general landscape view the park itself publishes. No sensitive site is shown in detail. An open list of places
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander hosted Country
Country where Traditional Owners host visitors: joint managed parks, cultural centres and walks led by the people whose land it is.
11 places on this journey · Australia
Photo: 掬茶, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsExterior of the museum and park, no people in frame. An open journey
Ainu Mosir: Ainu culture in Hokkaidō
Four places in Hokkaidō where Ainu people show their own language, craft and history, from a national museum to a village of artists.
4 stops · Japan
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Photo: P.sutermeister, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Museo de la Nación Guna in the comarca. An open journey
Amazon and isthmus hosts: Brazil, Colombia and Panama
The first Indigenous museum in Brazil, a Pataxó museum that reopened after five years shut, a city in the Sierra Nevada, and a comarca that issues its own permits.
5 stops · Brazil, Panama and Colombia
Photo: National Park Service (United States), Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe great kiva plaza at Chetro Ketl, photographed by the park service itself. An open list of places
Ancestral Pueblo places
Great houses and cliff villages in the Southwest, kept as parks, whose descendants still live nearby.
6 places on this journey · United States
Photo: H.dav.are, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTaquile and its terraces from the air. An open journey
Andean hosts: Quechua, Aymara, Uru and Kichwa
Islands that run their own tourism, a bridge four communities rebuild every year, a lodge owned by the village that built it, and a Kichwa market.
8 stops · Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador
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Photo: Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe longhouse buildings from outside, no people in frame. An open journey
First Nations, Inuit and Métis hosts in Canada
Cultural centres and heritage sites run by the nations whose territory they stand on, from Haida Gwaii to Nunatsiavut.
12 stops · Canada
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Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsExterior of the palace from the public grounds. An open list of places
Kānaka Maoli: the Hawaiian kingdom and its places
Palaces, puʻuhonua and valleys that hold Native Hawaiian history, including the overthrow that most visitors never hear about.
8 places on this journey · United States
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Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe grounds and waka house from the public path. An open journey
Māori history and living arts
Treaty grounds, carving schools, living villages and one cape at the end of the world, hosted by iwi and by national museums.
6 stops · New Zealand
Photo: Oleksii0, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe stairway and temple platform at Bonampak. An open journey
Maya hosts in Mexico and Guatemala
Lacandón, Ch'ol, Tzotzil and Tzeltal, Kaqchikel and K'iche' communities hold the way in to these places. Six stops where the host is named.
6 stops · Mexico and Guatemala
Photo: O Palsson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsExterior of the museum building. An open journey
Museums of Native art and history
Large museums of Native American art and history that are not tribally run, with a plain note on who runs each.
5 stops · United States
Photo: Missvain, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsExterior of the museum, no people in frame. An open journey
Native-led museums: hosts telling their own history
Museums and cultural centres run by the nations whose history they hold, across the United States.
13 stops · United States
Photo: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAdobe exterior of Hlaukwima, the south house, from the public visitor area. Not the chapel. An open list of places
Pueblo communities: visiting as a guest
Living Pueblo communities in New Mexico that host visitors on their own terms. Closures come before progress.
5 places on this journey · United States
Photo: ProfessorX, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Rano Kau crater inside the park. An open journey
Rapa Nui, Lickanantay and Mapuche hosts in Chile
A national park handed back to the people whose island it is, two Atacama sites held by their own communities, and a Mapuche museum on the coast.
7 stops · Chile
Photo: Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsExterior of the museum in winter, no people in frame. An open journey
Sápmi: Sámi museums and parliaments
Sámi run museums and parliament buildings across northern Finland, Norway and Sweden, in the languages of each region.
7 stops · Finland, Sweden and Norway
Photo: Leonard G., Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsA distant dawn view of the whole rock with Kata Tjuṯa behind. No sensitive site is shown in detail and no people are in frame. One place
Uluṟu: arriving on Aṉangu country
One place. Getting to Uluṟu, on the terms Aṉangu set, is the whole journey.
1 place on this journey · Australia
Islamic
Photo: Aiman titi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsShows the Kaaba at the centre of the Grand Mosque courtyard. One place
Al-Masjid al-Haram, Makkah
The Grand Mosque in Makkah, the direction two billion people face in prayer. Reaching it is the journey.
1 stop · Saudi Arabia
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Photo: John Crane from Prague, Czech Republic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Great Mosque of Touba and its minarets. One place
Great Mosque of Touba
The Mouride order built a city around one grave, and the Grand Magal brings several million people back to it each year.
1 stop · Senegal
Photo: Aiman titi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsShows the Kaaba at the centre of the Grand Mosque courtyard. A defined route
Hajj: places along the pilgrimage
The four places the Hajj moves through, from the Grand Mosque in Makkah out to Arafat, Muzdalifah and Mina.
4 stops · Saudi Arabia
Photo: User:HerbertReichart germany, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Imam Hussain Shrine in Karbala. One place
Imam Hussain Shrine, Karbala
Arbaeen at Karbala is the largest annual gathering of people on earth. The shrine stands on its own the rest of the year too.
1 stop · Iraq
Photo: Iahsan at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe gold dome of the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad. One place
Imam Reza Shrine, Mashhad
Iran's holiest city and the largest mosque in the world by area. Millions come each year; the shrine is why the city exists.
1 stop · Iran
Photo: Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsCarved stucco and tilework in the Nasrid palaces. An open journey
Islamic art and architecture
A thousand years of building and making, from Córdoba and Cairo to Samarkand, Agra and Abu Dhabi.
27 stops · Spain, Turkey, UAE, Qatar, India, Uzbekistan, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Mali, Pakistan, Canada and Malaysia
Photo: Bluemangoa2z at Malayalam Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Prophet's Mosque with its minarets and green dome. A defined route
Madinah: prophetic history
The six places a Madinah ziyarah itinerary has followed for centuries, from the Prophet's Mosque out to the battlefield at Uhud.
6 stops · Saudi Arabia
Photo: User:دانقولا, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe turquoise tower over Rumi's tomb at Konya. An open journey
Sufi heritage: shrines and lodges
Shrines and lodges of the Sufi orders, from Konya and Ajmer to Touba, Bukhara and the Swahili coast.
12 stops · Turkey, India, Senegal, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Kenya
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Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson., Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe gold dome and minarets of the Imam Ali Shrine. A defined route
The Atabat: Iraq's four shrine cities
Najaf, Karbala, Kadhimiya and Samarra. Shi'a tradition already has a name for this set of shrines: the Atabat, the thresholds.
5 stops · Iraq
Photo: Bluemangoa2z at Malayalam Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Prophet's Mosque with its minarets and green dome. One place
The Prophet's Mosque, Madinah
The mosque the Prophet Muhammad built and is buried in. Most pilgrims to Makkah add it; it also stands alone.
1 stop · Saudi Arabia
Photo: Iahsan at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe gold dome of the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad. An open journey
Ziyarah beyond Iraq
Shrines of the Prophet's family and the early scholars, from Mashhad and Qom to Cairo's four Ahl al-Bayt mosques and a grave outside Samarkand.
10 stops · Iran, Egypt and Uzbekistan
Jain
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Ranakpur Jain Temple. An open journey
Jain temple art
Marble ceilings cut thin enough to glow, rock cut halls at Ellora and a fort full of temples in the Thar desert.
5 stops · India
Photo: Trinidade, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Shatrunjaya. An open journey
Jain tirths
Six hills and towns where Tirthankaras are held to have reached liberation or taught, from Shatrunjaya to Pawapuri.
6 stops · India
Photo: Trinidade, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Shatrunjaya. One place
Palitana
About nine hundred marble temples on a hill above a Gujarat town, reached by some 3,500 steps and left empty at night.
1 stop · India
Jewish
Photo: Logaritmo, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe entrance to the Auschwitz I museum grounds, in winter, with no people in frame. One place
Auschwitz-Birkenau
The memorial and museum at Oświęcim. This is recorded as a visit, never as something completed.
1 place on this journey · Poland
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Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe wall and the plaza in front of it. An open journey
Israel: land and memory
Places in Israel and Jerusalem where Jewish history is on the ground, from the Western Wall and Masada to the Galilee synagogues and Independence Hall.
14 stops · Israel and Palestine
Photo: Steven Lek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe glass and copper exterior facing the Ghetto Heroes monument. An open journey
Jewish lives, stories and creativity
Museums about how Jews have lived, argued, written and made things, in Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Casablanca, Shanghai and elsewhere.
13 stops · Poland, Israel, Germany, United States, Austria, Czech Republic, Morocco, China, Australia, France and Bosnia & Herzegovina
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Photo: Jerzy Strzelecki, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsShows the gabled brick facade from the street, the way visitors first see it. An open journey
Jewish living communities: synagogues in use
Synagogues where a community still prays, from Prague and London to Djerba, Kochi and Curaçao.
23 stops · Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, United States, Tunisia, Portugal, Curaçao, India, Turkey, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, Argentina, Israel, Serbia, Poland and Lithuania
Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe exterior in the old Jewish quarter of Toledo. An open journey
Sephardi and Mizrahi: around the Mediterranean
Iberia, the Maghreb, the Ottoman coast and Egypt: the Jewish Mediterranean, from Toledo and Fez to Salonica, Rhodes and Cairo.
14 stops · Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Bosnia & Herzegovina
Photo: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe brick block seen across its courtyard, as it is approached. An open journey
Sephardi heritage: the Atlantic port communities
One network of families, from Amsterdam and London across the Atlantic to Recife, Curaçao, Suriname, Kingston, Newport and Charleston.
12 stops · Netherlands, United Kingdom, Brazil, Curaçao, Suriname, Jamaica, United States, France, Italy and Gibraltar
Photo: Logaritmo, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe entrance to the Auschwitz I museum grounds, in winter, with no people in frame. An open list of places
Shoah remembrance and learning
Memorials, camps and museums of the Shoah. Places on this journey are recorded quietly, as visits, and nothing here is a score.
20 places on this journey · Poland, Netherlands, Israel, Germany, United States, Czech Republic, France, Belgium, Ukraine, Lithuania, Austria, Russia and Hungary
Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe wall and the plaza in front of it. One place
The Western Wall
The Kotel in Jerusalem, the place Jewish travellers name first. Arriving is the journey.
1 stop · Israel
Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe museum's concrete prism cut through the hillside. One place
Yad Vashem
Israel's memorial to the Jewish victims of the Shoah, on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. A visit is recorded quietly.
1 place on this journey · Israel
LGBTQ+
Photo: GKoskovich Credit: GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe museum front on 18th Street. An open journey
LGBTQ+ museums and community archives
Thirteen museums and archives that keep this history themselves, in six countries. Some are galleries you walk into. Some are reading rooms that need an appointment.
13 stops · United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Africa
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Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe bar frontage on Christopher Street, with no crowd in shot. An open journey
LGBTQ+ organizing: public historic places
Buildings, plazas and street corners where people organised in public. Every place on this list carries a designation from a government or a national heritage body.
15 stops · United States, Germany, United Kingdom and Uruguay
Photo: Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsA marker at one of the entrances to the grove. An open list of places
LGBTQ+ remembrance, care, and AIDS memory
Ten memorials in seven countries, to people killed under National Socialism and to people lost to AIDS. These are quiet places. Nothing here is collected or scored.
10 places on this journey · United States, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Canada and France
Shinto
Photo: Crown of Lenten rose, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe thatched Sanjin Gōsaiden hall at the summit. A defined route
Dewa Sanzan: the three mountains of Dewa
Haguro, Gassan and Yudono in the mountains of Yamagata. Two of the three open for only part of the year, which makes the timing half the journey.
3 stops · Japan
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Uji Bridge torii, where the approach to Naikū begins. One place
Ise Jingū
The senior shrine of Japan, rebuilt from scratch every twenty years for thirteen centuries. For many people in Japan it is the one journey everyone makes once.
1 stop · Japan
Photo: Oilstreet, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsThe thatched roofline of the outer sanctuary seen from the public path. A defined route
Ise's inner and outer sanctuaries
Jingū at Ise has two main sanctuaries, Naikū and Gekū, a bus ride apart. Custom is to worship at Gekū first. Neither walk ends at the building itself.
2 stops · Japan
Photo: Tim Notari from Tanabe-Shi Wakayama-Ken, Japan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe shrine buildings inside the public precinct. A defined route
Kumano Sanzan: the three grand shrines
Three shrines in the mountains of the Kii Peninsula, counted together as one destination since the tenth century and linked by the Kumano Kodō paths.
3 stops · Japan
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Uji Bridge torii, where the approach to Naikū begins. An open journey
The great shrines of Japan
Twelve shrines that shaped how Japan worships, from the oldest halls at Izumo to the reconstructed palace at Heian. An open list, not a complete one.
12 stops · Japan
Sikh
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Photo: This picture has been taken by Oleg Yunakov . Contact e-mail: yunakov gmail.com . Image can be used in accordance with the terms of the СС-BY-SA license. Other photos can be seen here ., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Sri Harmandir Sahib. An open journey
Gurdwaras of the world
Gurdwaras across India, Pakistan, Britain and Canada, from the Harmandir Sahib to a Himalayan lake at 4,632 metres.
9 stops · India, Pakistan, United Kingdom and Canada
Photo: Jeev at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Gurdwara Janam Asthan. A defined route
Guru Nanak's life
Four places from the first Guru's life, two of them across a border that many Sikhs cannot easily cross.
4 stops · Pakistan and India
Photo: Amarpreet.singh.in at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Akal Takht. A defined route
Panj Takht: the five seats
The five Takhts of Sikh authority: Akal Takht, Keshgarh Sahib, Damdama Sahib, Patna Sahib and Hazur Sahib.
5 stops · India
Photo: This picture has been taken by Oleg Yunakov . Contact e-mail: yunakov gmail.com . Image can be used in accordance with the terms of the СС-BY-SA license. Other photos can be seen here ., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Wikidata lead image for Sri Harmandir Sahib. One place
Sri Harmandir Sahib
The Golden Temple at Amritsar, open on four sides, with a kitchen that feeds everyone who comes.
1 stop · India