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.

A unique collection of figures perform down the facade of the Gene Frankel Theatre.

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.

Ghostly specters are said to haunt this secluded cave where a famed Wampanoag leader spent the final days of his life.

The oldest continuously-running professional dinner theater in the United States.

This statue of a deified “hag” is said to protect children from the common cold and coughing fits.

This larger-than-life lime green gummy bear sits in the middle of a roundabout in Spain.