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  • A statue of a Mongolian warrior stands beside steps leading to the Parliament building (not visible) and above Sukhbaatar Square. Other government buildings lie in the background.
    MGe 060710-046.jpg
  • Clouds swirly around a statue of the angel Moroni, atop the Mormon church in Monticello, Utah.
    UTe 180717-357.jpg
  • Clouds swirly around a statue of the angel Moroni, atop the Mormon church in Monticello, Utah.
    UTe 180717-347.jpg
  • Tourists stand below a huge statue of Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
    DCe 080328-185.jpg
  • A garden statue of the Madonna seems to join American Sikhs in a morning prayer vigil outside a temple near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    NM 0557.jpg
  • Tourists stand below a huge statue of Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
    DCe 080328-194.jpg
  • Tourists stand below a huge statue of Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
    DCe 080328-185e.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET. 8-meter-high Nietang Buddha, 40km SE of Lhasa, largest cliff statue in Tibet, depicting Sakyamuni meditating under Bodhi tree.
    CF 0304.jpg
  • Main Street in Bozeman, Montana.
    MTe 110712-018.jpg
  • A vistor touches the toe of a sculpture of a Patagonian Indian in the plaza of Punta Arenas, Chile.  This is supposed to ensure one's return to Patagonia.
    CHe 081025-097.jpg
  • A pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) nail stone sculpture.
    PE 3403.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist monks chant during a puja ceremony at a monastery near Kathmandu.
    KM 2517.jpg
  • Main Street in Bozeman, Montana.
    MTe 110712-011.jpg
  • The U.S. Capitol building rises behind the Grant Memorial and Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.
    DCe 080328-025-2.jpg
  • A sculpture of a Patagonian Indian sits atop a bas relief of Magellan's ships in the plaza of Punta Arenas, Chile.
    CHe 081025-088.jpg
  • Saint Nicholas Church, oldest Orthodox church in Brasov.
    RO 0520.jpg
  • Sculpture of wrathful protective deity.
    LK 1211.jpg
  • A shrine in Saint Nicholas cathedral honors fallen soldiers of World War II from Ischgl, Austria.
    EU 2550.jpg
  • Ornate artwork and gilt sculpture decorates Saint Nicholas Church in Iscghl, Austria.
    EU 2548.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist monk & pilgrim beneath sculptures of Bodhisattvas at Palkhor Monastery, Gyantse.
    CF 2643.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist monk by door into richly ornamented Tshomchen, the Main Assembly Hall at Palkhor Monastery in Gyantse.
    CF 2628.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist devotee leaves exits door of richly ornamented Tshomchen, the Main Assembly Hall at Palkhor Monastery in Gyantse.
    CF 2624.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET.  Tibetan Buddhist monk tends yak butter lamps at Samye Monastery, one of oldest in Tibet.
    CF 1526.jpg
  • INDIA, Kashmir. Hindu worshippers leave offerings (prasad) in Amarnath Cave, after 5-day Himalayan pilgrimage to see ice lingam here.
    AY 1318.jpg
  • A statue of Lenin stands in front of the Soviet-era Ulaanbaatar Hotel in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-067.jpg
  • Gilt toes on a 26.5-meter-high statue of Migjid Janraisig (Avalokitesvara) at Ganden Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080719-053.jpg
  • A statue of Vladamir Lenin stands in front of an office building in the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Arctic Ocean.
    RUe 070426-007.jpg
  • A statue in Arkhangel'sk, Russia, commemorates local heroes of the Russian Revolution.
    RUe 070412-091.jpg
  • A crane atop a new high rise building in Ulaanbaatar towers over a statue of Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922.
    MGe 080720-044.jpg
  • A newly wed couple poses on steps below a statue of Genghis Khan outside of Mongolia's Parliament Building, by Sukhbaatar Square in donwtown Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080719-374.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist worshippers pray before a 26.5-meter-high statue of Migjid Janraisig (Avalokitesvara) at Ganden Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Dalai Lame is believed to be a reincarnation of this deity.
    MGe 080719-072.jpg
  • A statue of Damdiny Sukhbataar, the hero of Mongolia's independence from China, towers above Sukhbataar Square in front of the parliament building in Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 060710-060.jpg
  • Sculptures of Patagonian Indians below a famous statue of Magellan in Plaza Muñoz Gamero, Punta Arenas, Chile.
    CHe 080202-381.jpg
  • Sculptures of Patagonian Indians below a famous statue of Magellan in Plaza Muñoz Gamero, Punta Arenas, Chile.
    CHe 080202-377.jpg
  • Bronze bas relief below a famous statue of Magellan in Plaza Muñoz Gamero, Punta Arenas, Chile.
    CHe 080202-373.jpg
  • A famous statue of Magellan in Plaza Muñoz Gamero, Punta Arenas, Chile.
    CHe 080202-370.jpg
  • A sidewalk vendor near famous statue of Magellan in Plaza Muñoz Gamero, Punta Arenas, Chile.
    CHe 080202-367.jpg
  • A newly wed couple poses below a statue in Sukhbaatar Square, both built in honor of Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922.
    MGe 080719-352.jpg
  • Statues of the Buddha adorn a hidden shrine in the village of Bayi at the downstream end of the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
    TS 2895.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Remote Buddhist "gompa" in Hinku Valley, other statues: Buddha (c.) Aralokitashuara (l) (Dalai Lama)
    KB 2012.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-062.jpg
  • A Mongolian soldier guards the national Parliament Building in Ulaanbaatar, standing between huge bronze scuptures of Genghis Khan and one of his mounted soldiers.
    MGe 080720-059.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-058.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-054.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-041.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-039.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-036.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-033.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-030.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-027.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-025.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-021.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-018.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-011.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-007.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-004.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-001.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080719-381.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080719-370.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080719-365.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080719-362.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-063.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-061.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-058.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-056.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-048.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-044.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-038.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-030.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-028.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-026.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-020.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-019.jpg
  • A massive sculpture of Genghis Khan sits in front of Mongolia's parliament building, overlooking Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaan Baatar. The banners proclaim the upcoming 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan unifying warring tribes in the country of Mongolia (and from which he would lead armies that conquered much of the world.)
    MGe 060710-070.jpg
  • A sculpture of Damdiny Sukhbataar, the hero of Mongolia's independence from China, towers above a huge square that bears his last name.  This plaza is a central meeting place and sprawls in front of the Parliament building in central Ulaan Baatar.
    MGe 060710-058.jpg
  • Wrathful & protective deities in Choijinlam Temple, a rare, remaining Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.  During the country's Soviet occupation, religion was discouraged and thousands of monks and lamas were executed.  The religion is making a resurgence after independence.
    MGe 060624-011.jpg
  • Ornately sculpted altars & deities in Choijinlam Temple, a rare, remaining Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia, a country where monks and lamas were executed after communist takeover.  The religion is making a resurgence after independence
    MGe 060624-005.jpg
  • A pigeon flies past a modern glass building that contrasts sharply with the venerable Metropolitan Cathedral in Santiago, Chile.
    CHe 080208-045.jpg
  • Religious culptures and towers adorn the Metropolitan Cathedral in Santiago, Chile.
    CHe 080208-025.jpg
  • Altar in tiny chapel at Cape Horn, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, the southernmost place in South America
    CHe 080131-080.jpg
  • Sculpture of Maitreya, the Future Buddha at monastery near Leh.
    LK 1210.jpg
  • Patan, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.  Classic Newari design pagoda temple in Patan, Nepal.
    KT 0908.jpg
  • Buddhist icons adorn a temple in Lhasa, Tibet, China.
    CF 3411.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-051.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-048.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-032.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-029.jpg
  • Sukhbaatar Square, named for Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922, dominates  central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-012.jpg
  • A father and his daughter stand outside the Mongolian Parliament building - dominated by a sculpture of Genghis Khan - in Sukhbaatar Square in downtown Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080719-388.jpg
  • Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar is one of the biggest religious centers remaining  in Mongolia after Soviet era purges virtually wiped out Tibetan Buddhism in the country.
    MGe 080719-011.jpg
  • A garden statue of the Madonna seems to join American Sikhs in a morning prayer vigil outside a temple near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    NM 0559.jpg
  • A Hindu woman makes offerings to a statue of the goddess Kali at Dakshinkali Temple in the Kathmandu Valley,, Nepal, 1996.  Every week animals are sacrificed here to placate the bloodthirsty goddess.
    KM 0304.jpg
  • A Tibetan Buddhist statue of a wrathful deity fills an alcove in a monastery at Braga, Nepal
    AA 3419.jpg
  • A statue of Bhairava, an angry Tibetan Buddhist manifistation of a Boddhisathva resides in a gompa (temple) in Braga village, north of Annapurna, on Nepal's Around Annapurna trek.
    AA 3418.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist statues and relics in the gompa (temple) at Braga Village in the Manang Valley north of Annapurna in Nepal.
    AN 5311.jpg
  • Statues of the Goddess Kali surround Dakshinkali Temple in the Kathmandu Valley,, Nepal, 1996. Every week animals are sacrifice here to appease the bloodthirsty goddess.
    KM 0306.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist statues and relics in the gompa (temple) at Braga Village in the Manang Valley north of Annapurna in Nepal.
    AN 5309.jpg