Places

Varanasi, India

Regarded as the spiritual capital of India, the city draws Hindu pilgrims who bathe in the Ganges River’s sacred waters and perform funeral rites. Along the city's winding streets are some 2,000 temples --Google

Vatican City

a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity of international law, which maintains the city state's temporal, diplomatic, and spiritual independence. --wikipedia

Basilica of Saint-Denis

The basilica became a place of pilgrimage and a necropolis containing the tombs of the French Kings, including nearly every king from the 10th century through Louis XVIII in the 19th century --wikipedia

Mount Rushmore

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927 to 1941 --wikipedia

Tennessee

The Volunteer State. By request.

Christ the Redeemer (statue)

The statue is located at the peak of the 700-metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro --by request

Camino de Santiago

Known in English as the Way of St. James, [it] is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela... in Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried --wikipedia

Sainte-Chapelle

The Sainte-Chapelle is no longer a church. It was secularised after the French Revolution, and is now operated by the French Centre of National Monuments --wikipedia

Venice

a very popular tourist destination, a major cultural centre, and has been ranked many times the most beautiful city in the world. --wikipedia

Sistine Chapel

Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving. — Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 23 August 1787

Le Mont-Saint-Michel

A town of 30 people on a tidal island in northwest France visited by 3 million people each year, according to Wikipedia. Also calibrated: the abbey atop the town.

Barcelona

The capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. --wikipedia

Canary Islands

"a Spanish archipelago off the coast of northwestern Africa, are rugged volcanic isles known for their black- and white-sand beaches." --wikipedia

Florence Cathedral

aka Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower

Dominican Republic

"occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island [Hispaniola], which it shares with Haiti" --wikipedia