New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

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

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

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

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

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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

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

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

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

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.