has been transformed by hundreds of Christians into a shrine with pilgrimage visits to seek tranquility and time with their maker.Read: Inside Kapedo Catholic Church where worshippers are guarded ...

Nestled amid the cliffs along this rocky shore is Udo Shrine. The main shrine building (honden) stands inside a low cave carved out of the cliff-face over millennia by the erosion of the waves.

Candles are lit at the foot of a statue of St. Valentine inside the Shrine of St. Valentine in Dublin. (photo: Courtesy of Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Shrine of St. Valentine ...