World Pilgrimage Guide

Since ancient times certain places have had a powerful attraction for billions of people around the world. Known as sacred sites and pilgrimage places, they are the most venerated and iconic locations of human civilization. Legends and contemporary reports tell of extraordinary experiences people have had while visiting these holy places. Different sacred sites have the power to heal the body, enlighten the mind and inspire the heart.

National Geographic photographer and anthropologist Martin Gray has spent forty years studying and photographing 2000 of these sacred sites in more than one hundred sixty countries. On this website Martin discusses the mythology, archaeology and history of sacred sites, as well as the critical importance of religious pluralism and spiritual ecology in contemporary times.

The website features maps showing the precise locations of more than 2000 pilgrimage places, bibliographies concerning archaeoastronomy, sacred geometry, shamanism and megaliths, and many hundreds of beautiful sacred site photographs.

Watch Martin's interview with the American Theosophical Society.

The Power of Place: Sacred Sites and the Presence of the Miraculous

Read the Introduction to Martin's book Sacred Earth

Sacred Earth is available from Barnes & Noble as a large-format book.