Sámara is a village in Guanacaste province on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. It’s known for its palm-lined main beach, Playa Sámara. West along the bay at Cangrejal, a reef attracts stingrays and tropical fish.

San Juan del Sur is a town on Nicaragua’s southwest coast. It’s known for a string of nearby Pacific beaches, such as Maderas Beach, with its strong-breaking waves, and the quieter Marsella Beach.

Santa Marta officially Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta is a city of half a million people, in the nation of Colombia.

Sarawak, a Malaysian state on Borneo, stretches along the island’s northwest coast, including many beaches on the South China Sea. It's known for the rugged, dense rainforest of its interior, much of it protected parkland.

Eslohe is a municipality in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Schiermonnikoog is an island, a municipality, and a national park in the northern Netherlands. Schiermonnikoog is one of the West Frisian Islands and is part of the province of Friesland. It's situated between the islands of Ameland and Rottumerplaal

The hilly eastern countryside is rich in lakes. The loamy soil in this area is responsible for one of the best wheat harvests in Germany.

Shiga is a Japanese prefecture to the east of Kyoto, on the island of Honshu. It contains the enormous freshwater Lake Biwa, whose shoreline is home to the regional capital, Otsu, as well as the city of Hikone, Sakamoto, and Nagahama, beaches resort.

Shimla is the capital of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, in the Himalayan foothills. Once the summer capital of British India, it remains the terminus of the narrow-gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway, completed in 1903.

Shizuoka, a Japanese prefecture on central Honshu’s Pacific coast, is home to 3,776m-tall Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest peak. Within this iconic volcano's foothills are the ancient Fujisan Hongu Sengen shrine and the Shiraito and Otodome waterfalls.