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The Kaaba was built in 2130 BC and was a site of pilgrimage for 2,700 years before the rise of Islam, including for Arabic Christians and Pagans

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Turkey was planning a TV show where a rabbi, a Buddhist monk, an Orthodox priest, and an imam attempt to convert 10 atheists each week, with any converts offered a free pilgrimage to one of the four holy sites. The Diyanet denied permission for an imam to appear and the program was cancelled.

What is a pilgrimage site?

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1. Germany has a thriving community of people who are Native American aficionados, who study Native cultures, perform reenactments of Native and Wild West life, and even make "pilgrimages" to North America to visit important sites.

2. Chichen Itza may have been a religious center for a period of time and is believed to have been a pilgrimage place for the Maya. Some suggest that the site where Chichen Itza was built was already a popular place of pilgrimage long before building of the city ever began.

3. Saudi Arabia has destroyed early Islamic heritage sites as a part of the continued expansion of the Masjid al-Haram at Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and their facilities in order to accommodate the ever-increasing number of people performing the pilgrimage (Hajj).

4. There is a British teenager named Harry Potter who's buried in Israel - and his grave is now a pilgrimage site.

5. The grave of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess was destroyed in 2011 after it became a pilgrimage site for Neo-Nazis.

6. The website 'Everything is Terrible' has spent 8 years collecting over 14,000 VHS copies of 'Jerry Macguire' and have stocked them in a mock video store in LA. Their ultimate goal is to build a pyramid in the desert to store the tapes and to serve as a pilgrimage site for film enthusiasts.

7. There is a critically endangered crab that is endemic to a single cave in Bali, which is used as a pilgrimage site for Hindus.

8. About Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli jew who entered a mosque and massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded another 125 before being beaten to death by the survivors. His grave site became a pilgrimage site for Israeli extremists, at least 10,000 people have visited.