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Noted as one of the most prominent monasteries of Serbia, this UNESCO heritage site lies 39 Kilometers southwest of the town of Kraljevo. The monastery was built in the Byzantine Raska style by Stefan Nemanja, who later abdicated and became a monk there himself. The monastery is made of white marble and is famous for its 13th and 14th century Byzantine frescoes.

Stugudal chapel is a wooden church that was built in 1957. The church has a long plan and was designed by architect John Egil Tverdahl.

The cathedral church of St. Eberhard has been a cathedral only since 1978. Although the parish dates back to the 10th century, the present building was completed in 1955, the previous one having been destroyed during the Second World War.

Styrvoll church is a long church dating back to the Middle Ages. The nave and chancel are made of stone, while the porch and the turret (from the 1870s) are made of wood.

Stødle Church is a stone and wooden church, the stone parts being remnants of the old 12th century structure. In the 17th century the church was extended westwards with a new wooden nave. The bell tower in front of the west entrance dates from 1879, and in 1960 the foot of the tower was given two side buildings where the sacristy and the entrance are located. The wooden walls of the church hall have a painted decoration from the 18th century, which was restored by Ola Seter in the 1950s.

Støle church is a long church from 1892. The church was designed by Adolf Schirmer and was originally called Levangsheien chapel. The stained glass on the wall behind the altar dates from 1942.

Støren church is an octagonal church dating from 1817. The octagon of the nave is slightly elongated. The roof is vaulted and divided into an upper and a lower part with a slight crack at the transition to the slightly steeper lower part. Inside the church hall, the roof is supported by four marble columns under a network of beams and bracing.

The Subotica Synagogue is a monumental Art Nouveau synagogue built by Hungarian architects Marcell Komor (1868-1944) and Dezső Jakab (1864-1932). Construction began in 1902 in what was then Austria-Hungary. After renovations since 2003, the building was officially inaugurated in 2018.

Located in the village with the same name, the Sucevita monastery was built between 1581 and 1601, on the expenses of a noble family, Movila: Ieremia was on the Moldavian throne between 1595 and 1606 and his brother Simon, who was the ruler of Valachia for a short period. The church with the Resurrection as its patron day was built in the Moldavian architecture, a style consolidated during the time of Stephen the Great and which combines in an harmonious way elements of Gothic and Byzantine art with specific architectural elements of the old wooden churches from Moldova. The exterior painting of the Sucevita monastery on a green background is the best preserved among the group of the Moldavian churches with exterior frescoes. The Ladder of Virtues, a masterpiece of the Romanian medieval painting, is the most impressive due to its dimension and the contrast between the order of the angels and the chaos of the Hell. Values of medieval art like embroderies, silver, manuscripts, wooden sculptures and icons are conserved and displayed in the monastery's museum.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but the oldest preserved gravestone relates to the second half of the 19th century. The cemetery was operating until WWII. It was not marked on old maps.