But, with nearly 1.1 billion Roman Catholics in the world, the Eternal City continues to be a major pilgrimage site for Easter and the holy days leading up to it.
The valley is the part-time home of former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant who has a farm house estate in the vale, and it has become something of a pilgrimage site for fans.
The chain plans to open another vegetarian outlet in north-western India, near the Vaishno Devi cave shrine in Kashmir, which is a Hindu pilgrimage site that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.
As I stood in Mani Bhavan, I was reminded that Martin Luther King made his own pilgrimage to that site over 50 years ago.
The Government Code and Cipher School in Bletchley, where Alan Turing did pioneering work on early computers, is a popular site of pilgrimage.
Following my small walking group, I strode across the hilltop, away from this ancient site of pilgrimage and across the stone-pitted flank of the hill.
And a bleached 18th-Century mission house still stands at the city's epicentre, one of the oldest buildings in America and perhaps the closest this nation has to a site of pilgrimage.
Built as the ultimate expression of love, the Taj has become a site of pilgrimage, a place where visitors bring their dreams and joys and longings, transforming it into sacred space.
I, too, was in town on a pilgrimage, visiting a site that predates Abraham and Job and monotheism by some eight millennia: a vast complex of Stonehenge-style megalithic circles in the Urfa countryside.
While pious Turks like the way that Ozal eased religion into public life, they will be hard pushed to turn this controversial bon viveur into a religious figurehead, still less his motorway tomb into a site of pilgrimage.
The values therefore encompass the property to be both an archaeological site as well as a place of pilgrimage.
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