The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

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

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

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

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

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

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

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

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

Standing in celebration of where the cattle dog was bred.

Located on top of mines that run through Broken Hill.

Australia's first open air museum and antique 3D theater.

Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

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