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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

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

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

A journey through a collection of classic cars and fashionable artwork.

An unusual snaking bank of boulders caused by longshore drift.

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

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

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

A wonderful safe haven founded in the 1960s to rescue endangered monkeys from the pet trade.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

One of Oxford's greatest treasures likely belonged to the legendary King Alfred the Great.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.