The National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs sits on a wooded hilltop above the Mohawk River about ten miles west of Amsterdam, in Auriesville. The site has been a Catholic pilgrimage destination since the 1880s, marking the village where three Jesuit missionaries — the North American Martyrs — were killed in the 1640s and where Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was born a decade later.
The grounds include a vast round chapel from the 1930s, the unusual scale and shape of which is striking even to non-Catholic visitors, plus outdoor Stations of the Cross winding through the woods. Open from May through October. Free entry; donations welcomed.