A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

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

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

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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