This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

This gnarled old tree supposedly sprouted from seeds kept in the pocket of a 16th-century Spanish sailor.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

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

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

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.