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NATURE

Welcome to The Complete Nature Pilgrim, a guide to the 100 most sacred and spectacular natural sites around the world. These places, chosen for their beauty and uniqueness, have captured the human imagination more than any other natural features on the planet. Come explore these magnificent places of our planet, and discover which ones may be found in your own neighborhood.

Bays/Fjords

  • Misty Fjord || *Alaska
  • San Francisco Bay || *California
  • Bay of Fundy || Canada
  • Guanabara Bay || Brazil
  • Geirangerfjord || Norway
  • Bay of Kotor || Montenegro
  • Phang Nga Bay || Thailand
  • Ha Long Bay || Vietnam
  • Bay of Islands || New Zealand
  • Milford Sound || New Zealand
  • Paradise Bay || Antarctica

Lakes

  • Crater Lake || *Oregon
  • Lake Tahoe || *California/Nevada
  • Peyto Lake || Canada
  • Lake Titicaca || Bolivia/Peru
  • Lakes of Killarney || Ireland
  • Lake Garda || Italy
  • Plitvice Lake || Croatia
  • Lake Nakuru || Kenya
  • Dead Sea || Israel/Jordan
  • Lake Baikal || Russia

Wetlands

  • Everglades || *Florida
  • Pantanal || Brazil/Bolivia
  • Camargue || France
  • Okavango Swamp || Botswana
  • Kerala Backwaters || India
  • Sundurbans || Bangladesh

Waterfalls

  • Niagara Falls || *New York/Canada
  • Yosemite Falls || *California
  • Angel Falls || Venezuela
  • Iguazu Falls || Argentina/Brazil
  • Kaieteur Falls || Guyana
  • Gullfoss/Golden Falls || Iceland
  • Rhine Falls || Switzerland
  • Ouzoud Falls || Morocco
  • Victoria Falls || Zambia/Zimbabwe
  • Boyoma Falls || Congo
  • Jog Falls || India
  • Pearl Shoal Falls || China

Forests

  • Redwood Forest || *California
  • Amazon Rainforest || Brazil/Columbia/Peru
  • Halle Forest || Belgium
  • Black Forest || Germany
  • Crooked Forest || Poland
  • Congo Rainforest || Congo/Cameroon
  • Spiny Forest || Madagascar
  • Jiuzhaigou Forest || China
  • Sagano Bamboo Forest || Japan
  • Daintree Rainforest || Ausatralia

Deserts

  • Mojave Desert/Death Valley || *Nevada
  • Salar de Uyuni || Bolivia
  • Atacama Desert || Peru/Chile
  • Namib Desert || Namibia
  • Sahara Desert || Numerous
  • White Desert || Egypt
  • Thar Desert || India/Pakistan
  • Gobi Desert || Mongolia/China
  • Pinnacles Desert || Australia

Canyons

  • Antelope Canyon || *Arizona
  • Grand Canyon || *Arizona
  • Bryce Canyon || *Utah
  • Waimea Canyon || *Hawaii
  • Copper Canyon || Mexico
  • Colca Canyon || Peru
  • Verdon Gorge || France
  • Samaria Gorge || Greece
  • Fish River Canyon || Namibia
  • Blyde River Canyon || South Africa
  • Tiger Leaping Gorge || China

Caves

  • Carlsbad Caverns || *New Mexico
  • Mammoth Cave || *Kentucky
  • Cave of the Crystals || Mexico
  • Fingal’s Cave || Scotland
  • Eisriesenwelt Ice Caves || Austria
  • Skocjan Caves || Slovenia
  • Jeita Grotto || Lebanon
  • Majlis al Jinn Cave || Oman
  • Reed Flute Cave || China
  • Mulu Caves || Malaysia
  • Puerto Princesa River Cave || Philippines
  • Waitomo Glowworm Cave || New Zealand

Geological Oddities

  • Giant’s Causeway || Ireland
  • Eye of the Sahara || Mauritania
  • Aloba Arch || Chad
  • Fairy Chimneys || Turkey
  • Door to Hell || Turkmenistan
  • Shilin Stone Forest || China
  • Chocolate Hills || Philippines
  • Moeraki Boulders || New Zealand

Underwater Wonders

  • Belize Barrier Reef/Great Blue Hole || Belize
  • Dean’s Blue Hole || Bahamas
  • Deep Sea Vents || Ecuador
  • Northern Red Sea || Egypt
  • Palau Reefs || Palau
  • Great Barrier Reef || Australia
  • Mariana Trench || N/A

Glaciers

  • Perito Moreno Glacier || Argentina
  • Vatnajokull Glacier || Iceland
  • Fedchenko Glacier || Tajikistan
  • Fox & Franz Josef Glaciers || New Zealand

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Welcome to The Complete Pilgrim(TM)! This site, created by Howard Kramer, is a combination travel blog and online guide to the world's greatest sites of religious interest (with some historic and recreational places thrown in for good measure). All written content has been originally researched and produced and is provided free for public research and enjoyment. Thank you for visiting!

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Photo of the Week

BASILICA OF ST. DENIS

Last month, I visited one of the most fascinating churches I have ever been to, the almost completely ignored Basilica of St. Denis in the northern suburbs of Paris.  Almost every French monarch is buried here, and almost nobody goes here.  Here are some pics I took:

Basilica of St. Denis

Tomb of Clovis

Tomb of Clovis

Tombs of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Tombs of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Tomb of Louis XIV The Sun King

Tomb of Louis XIV The Sun King

Royal Tombs

Royal Tombs

The Crypt

The Crypt

 

 

 

 

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Have a comment, a great photo or a religious site you'd like to nominate for the weekly spotlight? We would love to hear from you. Email us at hkramer@thecompletepilgrim.com.

About the Author

Howard Kramer is the creator and author of The Complete Pilgrim. He first took an interest in religious sites in his early twenties when traveling through Italy after college. In the two decades since he has traveled to more than two dozen countries and almost every state, visiting and photographing hundreds of the world’s greatest churches, synagogues and other places of religious interest. Howard has been writing about religious sites for the better part of the last decade, and The Complete Pilgrim is the culmination of years of his work and passion.

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