Hermits

This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.

The cave of a 12th-century hermit is still visited and venerated today.

This magical grotto is adorned with a complex pattern of native seashells, minerals, and fragments of colored glass.

Near this coastal cave stands a small memorial to the hermit who made it his home for three decades.

Believed to be the smallest castle in Europe.

This centuries-old graveyard is the final resting place of the Fort Fisher Hermit.

You can only access this hermitage by crawling under a ledge suspended above an overhang.

The remains of this misplaced church were moved here stone by stone.

An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.