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This remote highway took over 50 years to build.

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

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

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

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

It took millions of years for these rocks to resemble their mammalian counterparts.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

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.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.