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

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

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

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

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

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

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.