The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Nature's slip and slide.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

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

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

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

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

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

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

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.