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

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

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

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

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

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

Roadside display for a popular fruit and vegetable stand.

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.