A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

High winds can make this one scary landing.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

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

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

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

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.