This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

A diminutive, thousand-year-old church believed to be the smallest in Ireland.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

Mexico's National Sound Library houses music, recordings, and voices from the nation's rich past.