Indigenous Holy Sites

A sacred monolith central to Aboriginal Australian creation stories.

A sacred Inca citadel set high in the Andes, aligned with astronomical events.

The largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico, with massive ceremonial earth mounds.

A sacred monolith rising 867 feet from the Wyoming plains, revered by multiple Native tribes.

A sacred Indigenous site where Plains peoples conducted buffalo hunts for nearly 6,000 years.

The greatest concentration of Indigenous rock art on the Great Plains, sacred to the Blackfoot.

A remote sacred island with weathered totem poles, the spiritual heartland of the Haida people.

A sacred group of 36 massive rock domes near Uluru, central to Anangu men's spiritual law.

Massive balanced boulders in the Northern Territory, sacred 'eggs of the Rainbow Serpent.'

The world's longest continuing art tradition — Aboriginal rock paintings spanning 20,000+ years.

A 6,600-year-old Aboriginal aquaculture system, older than the Egyptian pyramids.

Site of the oldest known human cremation and ritual burial, dating back 42,000 years.

A lush sandstone gorge in Queensland with extensive Aboriginal stencil art galleries.

Iconic rock formation in the Blue Mountains with deep Gundungurra and Darug Dreaming significance.

A vast natural amphitheater in the Flinders Ranges, formed by two serpents in Adnyamathanha Dreaming.

A 'gallery of the ancients' in Arnhem Land with rock art dating back at least 28,000 years.

The holiest shrine of the Yazidi people, nestled in a valley in Kurdistan, Iraq.