This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.