The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

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

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

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

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

An exhibit dedicated to a Lithuanian partisan.

A small monument in Lithuania marks the geographic center of Europe—or at least one of the claimants.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

The largest coin pyramid in the world is a carefully balanced stack of over 1,000,000 pieces.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.