A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

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

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.