The pilgrimage site in Armenia, the Holy Lance Monastery

Geghard Monastery, also known as the Holy Lance Monastery, once housed the long spear that the Roman soldier used to stab Jesus, as well as fragments of wood from Noah's Ark, making it a pilgrimage site for Armenian Christians for centuries. It was listed as a World Cultural Heritage in 2000. Many of the monastery's buildings are carved into the mountain rock, very primitive, and the use of space is very clever, with lighting relying solely on small windows carved out. Inside the monastery, there is a spring that trickles out from the stone wall. Various exquisite crosses are carved on the mountain rock, as well as large and small caves for asceticism.