The sculpture shows a water rat turning the world upside-down, landing an elephant on its head.

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

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

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

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

The narrow passages will challenge even the bravest driver.

World's strongest whirlpool.

A collection documenting Nazi occupation of Norway, including a painting believed to be made by Hitler.

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.