Mount Sinai - Egypt

In the remote and rugged high desert of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula lies a land with immense historical and spiritual significance to the world’s three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Jerusalem - Israel

There are many who contend that there is something inherently sacred about places that cultures adopt as holy sites. Of all the Earth’s sacred places, this idea seems most embodied in the city of Jerusalem.

Yucca Mountain - United States

For more than two decades, the Shoshone and Paiute peoples, scientists, environmentalists, the federal government, Nevada citizens and politicians have wrestled over the fate of Yucca Mountain.

Sutter Buttes - United States

Playing a role in the traditional creation and afterlife stories of the Maidu and Wintun peoples, this small Northern California mountain range was a place of ritual for their ancestors, who once lived within view of the Buttes.

Xingu River System - Brazil

The Xingu River system, which runs through central Brazil northward to the Amazon, is a vital part of the complex ecosystem that sustains the world’s largest rainforests and a great diversity of cultures.

Mount Tenabo - United States

Although Mount Tenabo and its environs, the ancestral land of the Western Shoshone, has never been legally ceded to the federal government, politicians and corporations have treated it as a public resource to be mined for gold.

Black Mesa - United States

Every day for 35 years, 3.3 million gallons of groundwater were pumped from the Navajo aquifer, which flows beneath the Hopi and Navajo nations in Arizona, to transport coal via pipeline from a strip mine on Black Mesa.