This museum started by a curious collector is now a place for believers and skeptics alike.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

It took millions of years for these rocks to resemble their mammalian counterparts.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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."

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

First flying reptile discovered in British Columbia was for years forgotten in a cabinet.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.