9- Akal Takht Sahib
Location: Amritsar, Punjab
Religion: Sikhism
Annual visitors: 11 M
Significance: Akal takht was founded by sikh guru Hargobind ji in concern to improve spiritual education among Sikh community and for the place of Jathedar, the highest spokesman of Sikhs.
10- Mount Qiyun
Location: Xiuning, Huangshan, China
Religion: Taoism
Annual Visitors: 8 Million
Significance: It is one of the four sacred Taoist mountains in china. It is a Mecca for Taoist believers. Many Taoist temples, caves, tablets, steles and inscriptions can be found there. It has high calligraphic, religious value. Mount Qiyun is actually a calligraphic museum; It has 305 handwriting carvings on cliff and 232 engravings on steles.
11- Somnath Temple
Location: Veraval, Gujrat, India
Religion: Hindu
Annual Visitors: 7 Million
Significance: Somnath means ‘Lord of Moon’. It is important pilgrimage and tourist spot. This place is among of 12 jyotirlingas (refer to as devotional representation of GOD) and one of the oldest pilgrimage of Hinduism. It is built on the shore of Arabian sea and in between the temple and South pole, in a straight line there is no land area. Somnath temple was looted, destroyed and re-built many times.
12- Saint Peter’s Basilica
Location: Vatican City
Religion: Christian
Annual Visitors: 7 Million
Significance: It is one of the largest and holiest Catholic Church in the world. It is where pope preside many liturgies all around the year. Saint Peter, one of twelve Jesus disciples, buries here. The church is designed and built during Italian Renaissance. After putting down the first Basilica, it took 100 years to re-build and some of the famous architects of time took part.