Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

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

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

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

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

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

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.