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

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

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

One of the most extreme deserts in the world, these snow-free valleys harbor life, despite the hostile environment.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.