An enormous white temple that honors the birthplace of a Hindu goddess.

Fill up your senses in this beautiful riverside garden, dedicated to the works of singer-songwriter John Denver.

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

This church houses the tomb—but not the remains—of St. Nicholas, the likely progenitor to Santa Claus.

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

A massive line that stretches across the floor of Bologna’s largest church was created by a 17th-century scientist to measure the movements of the Sun.

An extensive audio-only collection of cultural heritage saved from a genocide.

An attractive free-plunge waterfall outside Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

Grab a slice of Catalonia’s famous flatbread in a space with ancient Roman roots.

This 820-foot-high spiral ramp is a walkway to the sky.

Behind this unmarked facade lies the original bomba—a crunchy orb of fried mashed potatoes stuffed with minced meat.

An enormous boulder deposited by the Scabland floods lies in the Quincy Basin among a host of smaller boulders.

The northernmost of the 12 surviving feudal castles of Japan is known as a cherry blossom viewing spot.

An elephant is carved onto the gravestone of a man who was crushed by one.

The only known remains of an extensive Maori settlement are preserved underneath an apartment building.