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

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

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

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

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.

White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.

Largest maize maze in the Southern hemisphere built with GPS technology on more than two acres.

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.