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The temples and chambers at these sites in south-central Indian, many hewn from single huge stones, are thought be to products of a millennium’s work by tens of thousands of Buddhists and Hindus.

According to Hindu mythology, the Prakrishta Yagna, Lord Brahma, the creator -- God of the Trinity, chose a piece of land on earth, on which the three rivers -- the Ganga, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati -- would flow into a quiet confluence. That land, blessed by the Gods, came to be called Prayag or Allahabad, as it is known today. It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage centres of India. Seeking to be freed from repeated reincarnation, Hindus gather in this city every twelve years to crowd into the waters.

From the realms of mythology and legends, the history of Allahabad then moved through time to 1575 CE, when Emperor Akbar founded a city, of lavish proportions, and named it Allahabad. The monarch realized its strategic importance, as a waterway landmark in North India, and also built a magnificent fort, on the banks of the holy sangam. Allahabad, today, is an important city where history, culture and religion create a magical confluence .... much like the sacred rivers that caress this blessed land.

The Ganges

According to legend, this center of Cambodian Hinduism -- the world’s largest city in 1000 CE -- was abandoned after the snake god, enraged by the murder of a priest’s son, caused a devastating flood.

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Considered a three-dimensional model of the Buddhist cosmos, this ornate temple on Java is believed to offer spiritual enlightenment to pilgrims who climb clockwise around its six concentric levels.

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Like the Bermuda Triangle, this area between Yap Island, Taiwan, and Japan is a source of baffling phenomena, including the "triangle wave," which is said to hit ships from three directions simultaneously.

Throughout Hawaii are prehistoric engineering works allegedly built by the menehune, a legendary race of dwarfish humanoids. Some believe the menehune are as real as the projects attributed to them.

This highest of Japanese peaks is sacred to Buddhists, for whom it is a gateway to another world, and to Shintoists, who have built numerous shrines dedicated to Sengen-Sama, the mountain’s Goddess.

Although exceedingly rugged and remote, this mountain in Tibet has been the destination of pilgrims for more than a thousand years. They consider it the center of the world, a dwelling place of Gods.

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According to popular belief, this golden-roofed former palace of the Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet, is the handiwork of the Gods, who are said to have raised it in a single night.

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Hundreds of stone figures with huge human heads glare across this tiny isle in the South Pacific. They stand on platforms on which the islanders consigned their dead to the elements.

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This majestic mountain in eastern China was venerated by Chinese emperors for about 4,000 years -- even though for most of that time it was sacred to Taoism and not to the state religion, Confucianism.

Though the face of this massive rock in central Australia is continuously being altered by erosion, the Aborigine people hold its surface features to be the marks of their giant, semidivine ancestors.

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