This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

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

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

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

Ecuador's largest Incan ruins show evidence of sophisticated irrigation and diplomacy among the ancient builders.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Venice's island of the dead.