Ruins of Saint Paul's

This guide to the Ruins of Saint Paul's in Macau opens with the 1835 typhoon fire that reduced one of Asia's largest Catholic churches to the single stone wall still standing here. It follows the facade back to the 1580s expulsion of Christians from Japan, and the exiled converts who carved this granite between 1620 and 1627, blending Japanese, Chinese and European imagery into one wall. You'll be pointed to the carvings themselves — the hydra, the guardian lions, the Chinese inscription — as things to find in the stone.