The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

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

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

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

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.

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.