What do we know about the cultural traditions of our ancestors? By what principle were places for temples and shrines once chosen—why do such places have a special energy and how it affects people? The lands mentioned in biblical history, the search for the Russian Shambhala and Noah’s Ark, the secrets of the Holy Grail, underground sanctuaries and temples, islands of power, sacred points of megacities, magic stones, curses that pursue desecrators of graves—about all this, and many other no less fascinating things, you will learn from the new book written by candidate of geographical sciences Yuri Suprunenko and journalist Irina Shlyonskaya.