Explore Sacred Sites and Ancient Civilizations
There are some places on our planet that defy explanation. Mysterious places, strange places, places that live indelibly in the memory of all travelers fortunate enough to have experienced them.
We may not be able to discover the uniqueness of our world right now, but we can still explore through our imaginations. Look forward to your future travels by taking a virtual vacation to these inspiring, mysterious locations across the globe..​
Easter Island (Pacific Ocean)

There are iconic images of the massive, steely-eyed and alien-like heads that gaze across volcanoes and ocean. But nothing prepares you for the reality. On Easter Island, a tiny, remote Polynesian island, there are hundreds of gigantic moai statues. Some stand proudly, others shattered in pieces – and some are still partly hewn from the volcano’s flanks, where the statues were created. Their origins are half-forgotten by the local Rapa Nui people. Their power is very real however, especially at sunrise and sunset when their faces glow ethereally.

Tour around and explore these incredible monuments while at home: Explore the Moai up close!
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Uluru (Australia)
Uluru (Australia)

Sometimes the very rocks of our planet seem to pulse with a strange energy. Uluru is such a place. It’s an other-worldly landscape transplanted massively to the Australian Outback. Here a gargantuan eruption of towering sandstone rises abruptly, inexplicably, from the flat, gritty desert all around into the largest natural monolith in the world. Aboriginal Australians have always revered this special place and talk of listening to creation stories on the wind – it is fitting that ownership has been returned to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines. And yes, Uluru really does glow at sunset.

Explore the sights and sounds of this incredible landscape while at home: Discover Uluru now!
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Fatehpur Sikri (India)
Fatehpur Sikri (India)

In all its regal richness, Fatehpur Sikri lies devoid of people on the hot plain of Northern India. It’s not a ghost town, but the ghost of an imperial capital city. Fatehpur Sikri was built by Mughal Emperor Akbar in the late 1500s, one of the largest cities in the world. But after just 14 years, history – and Akbar – moved on, and the city was abandoned. Now it’s a haunting assembly of courtyards, arches, tombs, mosques, treasury, palaces, harems, all left as they were over 400 years ago for you to imagine a life of incredible opulence.
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Lalibela (Ethiopia)
Lalibela (Ethiopia)

A thousand years ago, King Lalibela of Ethiopia built a second Jerusalem inside a remote African mountain. Instead of building skywards, a rich complex of 11 interconnected churches was created earthwards, cut down into the mountain. The miracle is that the interior of the buildings was created by the physical removal of rock. Tradition tells of angels descending at night to assist with construction. Biete Medhane Alem, set in a vast subterranean courtyard, is the world’s largest rock-hewn excavation. Another, Biete Ghiorgis, is a free-standing monolith carved in the shape of a cross, always graced with pilgrims worshipping in the half-light
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Monte Alban (Mexico)
Monte Alban (Mexico)

To stand atop this massive ancient citadel in Mexico, amidst misty mountains, is to hear the voices of The Cloud People who built it. The Zapotec were a warrior artisan race who chose this high plateau two and a half millennia ago to build temples, palaces and fortifications. Sweeping pyramids, expansive courtyards, ball courts and enigmatic bas-relief carvings await modern visitors, here where the ancient city meets the sky. Echoes of forgotten battles and human sacrifices to their many gods make this site eerily atmospheric.
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Ingapirca (Ecuador)
Ingapirca (Ecuador)

If only these stones could talk! Massive, perfectly fitted, mortar-less blocks form the base of the Temple of the Sun – the masterpiece of this northern outpost of the Incan Empire at Ingapirca. Each solstice, the sun would illuminate the doorway of the sacred chamber atop the Temple. There are no Machu Picchu crowds here. In this southern Ecuador stronghold, amidst imposing Andean mountainsides, it is still possible to stroll the original Incan roads in glorious isolation. And to hear the whispers of the Incas in the whistle of the wind.

Be transported to these beautiful Inca ruins while at home: Visit Ingapirca yourself today!
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