Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

The ship that got left behind.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

"The country that ate itself."

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

This remote highway took over 50 years to build.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

An unusual snaking bank of boulders caused by longshore drift.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

Large World War II gun emplacements and tunnel systems remain hidden near a remote end of Waiheke Island.

New Zealand's most advertised nonexistent landmark

This beach provides a glimpse of the ancient seafloor without getting wet.

This faded sign to nowhere is a beloved icon in New Zealand.

A drowned river valley that was important to the Maori and European settlers.