A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

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

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

Many rock climbers have come to conquer this slender sea stack, with various degrees of success.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

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

High winds can make this one scary landing.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.