Yokohama

Yokohama (which means “horizontal beach”) is Japan’s second most populous city. It sits on Tokyo Bay on the main island of Honshu.

Grasmere

Grasmere is a village in Cumbria, England in the Lake District. It is named for nearby Lake Grasmere. Poet William Wordsworth lived in Grasmere for 14 years with his sister Dorothy at Dove Cottage.

Herculaneum

Herculaneum was an ancient town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. It lay under 50-60 feet (20 meters) of ash and was virtually unexplored until the early eighteenth century.

Amboise, France

Leonardo’s final resting place, he died of a stroke here in 1519. While he was heralded in life as a great man of the Renaissance, his astronomical studies remained largely unknown due to his leaving many of his notes unpublished. As a result, many of Leonardo’s discoveries regarding the solar system—the physical features of the sun and moon, various phenomena of optics, and astronomy-related inventions and experiments—were lost and rediscovered later, resulting in the credit going to other great scientists.