A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

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

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

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.