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

High winds can make this one scary landing.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

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

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

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A world-class theater sits hidden in this remote town in West Iceland.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.