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

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

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.

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."

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

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.